The Work of Fire (Meridian

Crossing Aesthetics Series)

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by Maurice Blanchot,

Translated by Charlotte Mandell

Stanford University Press

Due/Published May 1995, 348 pages, paper

ISBN 0804724938

This is a collection of 22 essays originally issued as review essays in literary journals. Certain themes return again and again: the relation of literature and language to death; the significance of repetition; the historical, personal, and social function of literature; and perhaps most important, simply the question, What is at stake in the fact that something such as art or literature exists?

Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics