Thomas the Obscure

by Maurice Blanchot

Book Overview

Before Sartre, before Beckett, before Robbe-Grillet, Maurice Blanchot created the new novel, the ultimate post-modern fiction. Written between 1932 and 1940, Blanchot's first novel, here brilliantly translated by Robert Lamberton, contains all the remarkable aspects of his famous and perplexing invention, the ontological narrative--a tale whose subject is the nature of being itself. This paradoxical work discovers being in the absence of being, mystery...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0882680765
• ISBN13: 9780882680767
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Station Hill Press
• Length: 124 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"