Awaiting Oblivion

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by Maurice Blanchot

University of Nebraska Press

Due/Published May 1999, 107 pages, paper

ISBN 0803261578

New in paper! (S99)

More Blanchot . . . what Kirkus calls an "almost fiction." Here we have a man and a woman alone in a hotel room who try to remember what has happened to bring them there as they apprehensively await whatever will happen next. In true Blanchot style (and to continue with the Kirkus quote): "Their reserved confusion and quiet desperation eventually impress upon them (and us) the realization that imagination (or, if you will, writing) can create reality--and offer the paradoxical solace . . . that even language that expresses meaninglessness can't help bu contain and , therefore, convey meaning."

"This absolutely first-rate translation will not only make Blanchot accessible to many new readers but will also encourage Blanchot scholars and students to reconsider everything they thought they knew about L'Attente l'oubli. . . . This book should be required reading, period."--Choice

"Awaiting Oblivion is one of [Blanchot's] crowning works . . . a penetrating reflection upon human nature, language, and literature."--Translation Review