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Introduction LESLIE HILL AND MICHAEL HOLLAND The work of Maurice Blanchot (1907â2003) spans almost the whole of the twentieth century. As a writer of ï¬ction, literary critic, thinker, and political commentator, Blanchot fulï¬lled and exhausted some of the centuryâs most pressing challenges. The twentieth century, then, may be thought to have been Blanchotâs epoch, upon which he imprinted his unmistakeable signature and which left its indelible imprint on his work. Where does Blanchot leave the twentieth century, its thought, its literature, its engagement with the political? Blanchot himself was keenly aware that no epoch is ever properly contemporary with itself. The word epoch not only refers to a period in history, a delimited time or sequence of events, but also means a parenthesis, a pause, a moment where time is suspended. So if Blanchot speaks of his epoch from a place ï¬rmly embedded in the struggles and transformations of that epoch, he also writes from a place that exceeds the conï¬nes of that epoch, in which history in the received sense gives way to a time that is never present, always to come, yet at any point in time, always over. In what ways, then, does Blanchotâs writing
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Published: Nov 1, 2007
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