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Title	:	Thomas the Obscure
Author	:	Maurice Blanchot
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 124 pages
Published	:	January 6th 1995 by Barrytown/Station Hill Press, Inc. (first published 1941)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. France. Philosophy. European Literature. French Literature. Literature

Thomas the Obscure

Maurice Blanchot

Paperback | Pages: 124 pages

Rating: 4.04 | 748 Users | 71 Reviews

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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 in the absence of mystery, both to be searched for limitlessly. As Blanchot launches this endless search in his own masterful way, he transforms the possibilities of the novel. First issued in English in 1973 in a limited edition, this re-issue includes an illuminating essay on translation by Lamberton.

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Original Title:	Thomas l'obscur
ISBN:	0882680765 (ISBN13: 9780882680767)
Edition Language:	English

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I have a new love and his name is Maurice.

"There is, for every work, an infinity of possible variants. The present version adds nothing to the pages entitled Thomas the Obscure in 1932, delivered to the publisher in May of 1940 and published in 1941, but as it subtracts a good deal from them, it may be said to be another, and even an entirely new version, but identical at the same time, if one is right in making no distinction between the figure and that which is, or believes itself to be, its centre, whenever the complete figure itself

At once I was taken into the event, the hailstorm of ideas, thoughts, the words seeking their place and joining as magnetic twinings. Ever repetitive, ever reaching, dense and incomprehensible while singing the poetry of prose.Relieved that I am finally done though the novel was a mere 117 pages. (the words, only and slim, are to be excused.) Yet if I didnt read, Thomas the Obscure, I would not have lodged within me a perspective on the importance of an authentic life, an authentic death.

The whole concept of this piece was absurd. It is a fictional telling of Blanchot's ideas on philosophy. It explores what being is and is not. The writing was self-indulgent. The book read like it was written by an emotionally overwrought teenager fascinated with death. He took forever to basically say what is contained in a Chinese proverb: He who thinks he knows does not know. He who thinks he does not know, knows. I would never recommend this book to anyone unless I hated their guts.



Finished it once, then immediately began again. It leaves a scar.

Rather than withdraw from a text whose defenses were so strong, he pitted all his strength in the will to seize it, obstinately refusing to withdraw his glance and still thinking himself a profound reader, even when the words were already taking hold of him and beginning to read him he entered with his living body into the anonymous shapes of words, giving his substance to them, establishing their relationships, offering his being to the word be.I wish I were a reader like thisThomas the Obscure