Aminadab

by Maurice Blanchot

Book Overview

The world of Aminadab, Maurice Blanchot's second novel, is dark, bizarre, and fantastic. Reminiscent of Kafka's enclosed and allegorical spaces, Aminadab is both a reconstruction and a deconstruction of power, authority, and hierarchy. The novel opens when Thomas, upon seeing a woman gesture to him from a window of a large boarding house, enters the building and slowly becomes embroiled in its inscrutable workings.

Although Thomas...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803261764
• ISBN13: 9780803261761
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: Bison Books
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"