The One Who Was Standing Apart from Me

by Maurice Blanchot

This work takes the form of a conversation, an interview. An obsessive questioning back and forth builds up Blanchot's narrative, with its sense--shared with Kafka's famous doorkeeper parable--that behind each question lies the spooky possibility of a further, more imposing, more insoluble question. Thematically, powerlessness, inertia, insufficient speech, weariness, falling, faltering--everything tied to a negative or nonexistent value in ordinary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0882681516
• ISBN13: 9780882681511
• Release Date: June 1995
• Publisher: Station Hill Press
• Length: 94 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.9" x 8.7"