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Solitary readings by the presenters of work by Maurice Blanchot (d. 2003) in the Slought Foundation vault, recorded and displayed outside via closed-caption monitor.
"Perhaps the most influential French writer of the postwar era... Maurice Blanchot, writer and critic, was born in Quain, Saone-et-Loire, on September 27, 1907. He died on February 20, 2003, aged 95. His political and philosophical writing informed the work of Derrida, Foucault and Barthes...In almost total isolation, he slowly and painstakingly wrote a series of narratives, in which fiction is refined and purified until story and character yield to what Roland Barthes called une ecriture blanche... These complex and ground-breaking texts placed Blanchot at the forefront of literary and philosophical experiment in the mid-century, and writers such as Beckett, and the New Novelists... found in Blanchot a kindred spirit." (The Times, London, 26 February 2003)
"La mort de Maurice Blanchot, écrivain de l'effacement: Écrivain sans doute le plus secret de notre époque, Maurice Blanchot ( assis à droite ) est mort jeudi 20 février, à l'âge de 95 ans. Essayiste, auteur de fictions, il laisse une oeuvre critique parmi les plus importantes du XXe siècle, après avoir renouvelé la lecture de Kafka, de Mallarmé ou de Bataille." (Le Monde, 25 Février 2003)
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