Title: Complexity in Maurice Blanchot's fiction
First published: 1999
Description: Complexity in Maurice Blanchot's Fiction integrates findings from the history of science and mathematics; information theory, symbolic logic, and philosophy, in an interdisciplinary analysis of the relation between order, disorder, and process in the literary text. Maurice Blanchot's fiction serves as an exemplary focus for a textual analysis based on symbol formation and the emergence of order in complex literary texts. His fictional works are analyzed in terms of increasing complexity.

Culture relates to the literary text through metaphors expressing indeterminism, subjectivity, multivalence, opposition, recursion, loops, spirals, order and disorder, and emergence.
Subjects: Knowledge, Science, Literature and science, Criticism and interpretation, Science in literature, History, Knowledge and learning
Places: France
People: Maurice Blanchot
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: PQ2603.L3343 Z675 1999