The One Who is Standing Apart from Me
Of the small number of unimpeachably, original voices in modern French literature, that of Maurice Blanchot has waited logest to find an audience in English. Station Hill is performing a great service by bringing out Blanchot's enthralling fiction and essays. --Susan SontagBlanchot's prose gives an impression, like Henry James', of carrying meanings so fragile they might crumble in transit... [and} calims to contain something wonderful, a treasure not so unlike, perhaps, the beekeeper's defiant courage in the face of pain. --John Updaike, The New Yorker--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.