In the history of letters, Maurice Blanchot is one of the names that keeps being returned to.
The record lists Maurice Blanchot as French writer, philosopher, and literary theorist (1907–2003).
Maurice Blanchot was born at Devrouze in 1907. His recorded nationality is France. He was educated at University of Strasbourg.
Around the turn of the twentieth century, literary form itself came under argument, and the certainties of the realist novel were dismantled.
He worked as philosopher, writer and journalist.
The writing is recorded in French.
A writer's real subject usually becomes visible only across the whole body of work.
That the work was written from France matters: language, censorship and the reach of a publishing industry decide which books travel and which stay local.
Maurice Blanchot died in 2003, aged 96. The books remain, which is the only durable form a writing life takes.
