The Almighty
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"The Highest" (1948) is the most ambitious and at the same time mysterious work of one of the greatest thinkers of the 20th century, Maurice Blanchot (1907–2003). In this, his last novel (after which he abandoned the large form in favor of more concise speculative stories), critics tend to see various philosophical themes (the end of history and the triumph of Absolute knowledge, the death of God, the existential concern of Dasein, death as the guarantor of literary word) and literary paradigms (political pamphlet, apocalyptic dystopia, Kafkaesque parable), but all these ongoing constructions are only reductions of the fundamentally irreducible text into speculative constructs. The unexpected relevance of the novel, written in the wake of the upheavals caused by the Second World War, is given by the fact that the action unfolds against the backdrop of social cataclysms provoked in an ideally stable totalitarian state by a monstrous epidemic, which today we would call a pandemic. "If I wrote some books, it was only because I hoped to put an end to all this with books. If I wrote novels, they were born at the moment when words began to retreat before the truth." Maurice Blanchot "To enter Blanchot's prose is to enter an unreliable world that defends its freedom from the comfort and deadening habit of mimesis." Gilbert Sorrentino novel, philosophy, French literature of the 20th century
Author:
Author:Maurice Blanchot
Cover:
Cover:hardcover
Category:
- Category:Fiction
- Category:Historical Literature
Dimensions:
Dimensions:19x12x2.6 cm
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-89059-507-2
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