Maurice Blanchot: Avant-garde icon or obscure authoritarian? How thirty years of controversy have stifled debate

Controversy has surrounded Maurice Blanchot from the 1980s to today. Whilst claims of excessive formalism, obscurity and radicalism were often levelled at his generation, the Blanchot controversy has been sustained by the failure of critics to dispassionately appraise his 1930s political commitment...

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Main Author: Adrian May
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Radboud University Press in cooperation with Open Journals 2015-12-01
Series:Relief: Revue Électronique de Littérature Francaise
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Online Access:https://revue-relief.org/article/view/9095