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The Most High

Maurice Blanchot

出版	University of Nebraska Press, 1996
主題	Fiction / GeneralFiction / Classics
ISBN	08032124029780803212404
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=DoNcAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

Many of the greatest philosophers have expressed themselves best in fiction-More's Utopia, Voltaire's Candide, Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Sartre's Nausea, and Plato's Republic are but a few examples. The genre requires narrative skills and command of philosophical issues that few writers possess. Maurice Blanchot, however, has paid close attention to both modern fiction and the philosophical dilemmas of the twentieth century. The Most High (Le Trhs-Haut, first published in 1948) deals with some of the most striking and solemn themes that have set imagination afire. Blanchot describes a world where the Absolute has finally overcome all other rivals to its authority. The State is unified, universal, and homogeneous, promising perfect satisfaction. Why then does it find revolt everywhere? Could it be the omnipresent police? The plagues? The proliferating prisons and black markets? Written in part as a description of post-World War II Europe, Blanchot's dystopia charts with terrible clarity the endless death of god in an era of constantly metamorphosing but strangely definitive ideologies. Maurice Blanchot is the author of numerous works, including The Space of Literature and The Writing of the Disaster, both available from the University of Nebraska Press. Allan Stoekl is the editor and translator of Georges Bataille's Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927-1939 and the author of Agonies of the Intellectual: Commitment, Subjectivity, & the Performative in the Twentieth-Century French Tradition (Nebraska 1992).