Work of Fire

"A signal event for literary and cultural studies in the English-speaking world. As crucial essays on individual authors, as a major work of literary theory, as an important means of access to the 1940s in French culture, as an exemplary work combining reading and theoryit is of great importance to us today."J. Hillis Miller, University of California, Irvine "This collection of essays and reviews from the 1940s is about the 'fiery part' of literary language that burns through the aesthetic illusions and the easy referentiality of everyday language. . . . This collection is indepensable to any attempt to understand the years between Heidegger/Benjamin and Derrida/Man."ChoiceBlanchot, Maurice is the author of 'Work of Fire', published 1995 under ISBN 9780804724326 and ISBN 0804724326.