Blanchot’s Writings in English Translation

Books

  • A Voice from Elsewhere, tr: Charlotte Mandell. SUNY Press, Albany, 2007.
  • A World in Ruins: Chronicles of Intellectual Life, 1943, tr: Michael Holland. Fordham University Press, New York City, 2016.
  • Aminadab, tr: Jeff Fort. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 2002.
  • Awaiting Oblivion, tr: John Gregg. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 1997.

  • Death Now: Chronicles of Intellectual Life, 1944, tr: Michael Holland. Fordham University Press, New York City, 2019.

  • Death Sentence, tr: Lydia Davis. Station Hill Press, Barrytown, 1978.
  • Desperate Clarity: Chronicles of Intellectual Life, 1942, tr: Michael Holland. Fordham University Press, New York City, 2014.
  • Faux Pas, tr: Charlotte Mandell. Stanford University Press, Stanford, 2002.
  • Friendship, tr: Elizabeth Rottenberg. Stanford University Press, Stanford, 1997.
  • Into Disaster: Chronicles of Intellectual Life, 1941, tr: Michael Holland. Fordham University Press, New York City, 2013.
  • Lautréamont and Sade, tr: Stuart Kendall & Michelle Kendall. Stanford University Press, Stanford, 2004.
  • Michel Foucault as I Imagine Him, tr: Jeffrey Mehlman. Zone Books, Brooklyn, 1987.
  • Political writings, 1953-1993, tr: Zakir Paul. Fordham University Press, New York City, 2010.
  • The Blanchot Reader, ed: Michael Holland. Blackwell Publishers, Oxford, 1995.
  • The Book to Come, tr: Charlotte Mandell. Stanford University Press, Stanford, 2002.
  • The Gaze of Orpheus, and other Literary Essays, tr: Lydia Davis. Station Hill Press, Barrytown, 1981.
  • The Infinite Conversation, tr: Susan Hanson. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1993.
  • The Instant of My Death / Demeure Fiction and Testimony, tr: Elizabeth Rottenberg. Stanford University Press, Stanford, 2000.
  • The Last Man, tr: Lydia Davis. Columbia University Press, New York City, 1987.
  • The Madness of the Day, tr: Lydia Davis. Station Hill Press, Barrytown, 1981.
  • The Most High, tr: Allan Stoekl. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 1996.
  • The One Who was Standing Apart From Me, tr: Lydia Davis. Station Hill Press, Barrytown, 1992.
  • The Sirens’ Song: Selected Essays, tr: Sacha Rabinovitch. Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 1982.
  • The Space of Literature, tr: Ann Smock. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 1982.
  • The Station Hill Blanchot Reader, ed: George Quasha. Station Hill Press, Barrytown, 1999.
  • The Step Not Beyond, tr: Lycette Nelson. State University of New York Press, Albany, 1982.
  • The Unavowable Community, tr: Pierre Joris. Station Hill Press, Barrytown, 1988.
  • The Work of Fire, tr: Charlotte Mandell. Stanford University Press, Stanford, 1995.
  • The Writing of the Disaster, tr: Ann Smock. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 1986.
  • Thomas the Obscure: New Version, tr: Robert Lamberton. D. Lewis, New York City, 1988.
  • Vicious Circles: Two Fictions & “After the Fact,”, tr: Paul Auster. Station Hill Press, Barrytown, 1985.
  • When the Time Comes, tr: Lydia Davis. Station Hill Press, Barrytown, 1985.

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    Articles  

  • “Face to Face with Sade,” tr. Richard Howard, Instead (November, 1948), pp. 5-6.
  • “Face to Face with Sade,” tr. Richard Howard, in Issues in Abstract Expressionism, ed. Ann Eden Gibson, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1990.
  • “Adolphe or the misfortunes of sincerity,” tr. J. M. Bernstein, Horizon (August, 1948), 20, pp. 94-110.
  • “Symbolism and Bergson,” tr. UNKNOWN, Yale French Studies (Fall-Winter, 1952), 11, 2, pp. 63-66.
  • “Marquis de Sade,” tr. Bernard Frechtman, in Horizon (December 1949-January, 1950), 20, pp. 423-52.
  • “Marquis de Sade” (translation of “A la rencontre de Sade” 1947.), tr. Bernard Frechtman, Horizon 20, pp. 324-452.
  • “Adolph, or the Curse of Real Feelings,” tr. Geoffrey Hartman, in Yale French Studies (1954), 13, pp. 62-75.
  • “René Char” and “The Beast of Lascaux,” tr. Richard Sieburth, in René Char’s Poetry, Rome: De Luca, 1956, pp. 9-26, 27-40.
  • René Char’s Poetry: Studies, Maurice Blanchot, et al., tr. Richard Sieburth, Rome: Editions de Luca, 1956.
  • “The Diaries: The Exigency of the Work of Art,” tr. Lycette Nelson, in Franz Kafka Today, ed. Angel Flores & Homer Swander, Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1958, pp. 195-220.
  • “Where Now? Who Now?,” tr. Richard Howard, in Evergreen Review (Winter, 1959), pp. 222-24, 226-29.
  • “Where Now? Who Now?,” tr. Richard Howard, in On Contemporary Literature, ed. Richard Kostelanetz, New York: Avon Books, 1964, pp. 249-54.
  • “Where Now? Who Now?,” tr. Richard Howard, in On Beckett. Essays and Criticism, ed. S. E. Gontarski, New York: Grove Press, 1986, pp. 11-48.
  • “Where Now? Who Now?,” tr. Richard Howard, in Samuel Beckett’s ‘Molloy,’ ‘Malone Dies,’ ‘The Unnamable,’ ed. Harold Bloom, New York: Chelsea House, 1988, pp. 23-29.
  • “Time, Art and the Museum [abridged],” tr. Annette Michelson, in Malraux: A Collection of Critical Essays, ed. R. W. B. Lewis, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1964, pp. 147-60.
  • “The Athenaeum,” tr. Deborah Esch & Ian Balfour, Art and Literature (Autumn, 1965), 6, pp. 149-60.
  • “The Athenaeum,” tr. Deborah Esch & Ian Balfour, Studies in Romanticism (Summer, 1983), 22:2, pp. 163-72.
  • “Sade,” tr. Richard Seaver & Austryn Wainhouse, in The Marquis de Sade, The Complete Justine, Philosophy in the Bedroom and Other Writings, ed. Richard Seaver & Austryn Wainhouse, New York: Grove Press, 1966, 37-72.
  • “The Main Impropriety [exerpts],” tr. Susan Hanson, Yale French Studies (1967), 39, pp. 50-63.
  • “Gide and the Concept of Literature as Adventure,” tr. Richard Howard, in Gide: A Collection of Critical Essays, ed. David Littlejohn, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1970, pp. 49-62.
  • “Edmond Jabès’s Book of Questions,” tr. Rosmarie Waldrop, European Judaism (Summer, 1972) 6, pp. 34-7.
  • “Edmond Jabès’s Book of Questions,” tr. Rosmarie Waldrop, Montemora (1979), 6, pp. 76-81.
  • “Interruption, as on a Riemann Surface,” tr. Paul Auster, Literary Supplement (March, 1973), 4, pp. 13-16.
  • “Interruption, as on a Riemann Surface,” tr. Paul Auster, Montemora (1979), 6, pp. 72-6.
  • “Interruption, as on a Riemann Surface,” tr. Paul Auster, in The Sin of the Book: Edmond Jabès, ed. Eric Gould, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1985, pp. 43-54.
  • “For Edmond Jabès,” tr. Rosmarie Waldrop, A Range of Curtains (1973), 6-7, [unpaginated].
  • “Reading Kafka,” tr. Geoffrey Hartman, in Twentieth-Century Interpretaitons of ‘The Trial’: A Collection of Critical Essays, ed. James Rolleston, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentic Hall, 1976, pp. 11-20.
  • “The Limits of Experience — Nihilism,” tr. John Leavy, in The New Nietzsche, ed. David Allison, New York: Delto, 1977, pp. 121-7.
  • “From The Infinite Conversation,” tr. Susan Hanson, Enclitic (Spring, 1979), 3, pp. 51-61.
  • “The Look of Orpheus,” tr. Lydia Davis, Denver Quarterly (Fall, 1979), 14, pp. 90-5.
  • “Reading,” tr. Lydia Davis, Denver Quarterly (Winter, 1980), 14, pp. 119-25.
  • “Communication,” tr. Lydia Davis, Denver Quarterly (Spring, 1980), pp. 3-11.
  • “The Word Berlin” [abridged], tr. James O’Brien, Semiotext(e) (1982), 6, pp. 60-5.
  • “Musil,” tr. Kevin Hart, Scripsi (Spring, 1983), 2, pp. 15-28.
  • “Afterword,” in Joseph Joubert, The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, tr. & ed. Paul Auster, San Francisco: North Point Press, 1983.
  • “Marx’s Three Voices,” tr. Tom Keenan, New Political Science (Summer, 1986), 15, pp. 17-20.
  • “Our Clandestine Companion,” tr. David Allison, in Face to Face with Levinas, ed. Richard Cohen, Albany: SUNY Press, l986, pp. 41-53.
  • “Forward” to Nights as Day, Days as Night, Michel Leiris, tr. Richard Sieburth, intr. Roger Shattuck, Hygiene: Eridanos Press; New York, 1987.
  • “Our Responsibility,” tr. Barbara Harlow, in Texts for Nelson Mandela, ed. Jacques Derrida & Mustapha Tilli, New York: Seaver, 1987.
  • “The Last One to Speak,” tr. Joseph Simas, ACTS: A Journal of New Writing (1988), 5-6, pp. 228-39.
  • “Broch,” tr. Penny Hueston, Scripsi (August, 1989), 5:4, pp. 63-80.
  • “Thinking the Apocalypse: A Letter from Maurice Blanchot to Catherine David,” tr. Paula Wissing, Critical Inquiry(Winter, 1989), 15:2, 475-80.
  • “Translating,” tr. Richard Sieburth, Sulfur (1990), 26, pp. 82-6.
  • “Enigma,” tr. Paul Weidmann, Yale French Studies (1991), 79, pp. 8-10.
  • “Who?,” tr. Eduardo Cadava, in Who comes After the Subject?, ed. Eduardo Cadeva, Peter Connor & Jean-Luc Nancy, London: Routledge, 1991, pp. 58-60.
  • “Glances from Beyond the Grave,” tr. Ann Smock, Yale French Studies (1992), pp. 151-61.
  • “Berlin,” tr. Aris Fioretos, MLN (April, 1994), 109:3, pp. 345-55.
  • “The Silence of Writers,” tr. Michael Holland, in The Blanchot Reader, ed. Michael Holland, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1995, pp. 25-28.
  • “The Search for Tradition,” tr. Michael Holland, in The Blanchot Reader, ed. Michael Holland, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1995, pp. 29-32.
  • “The Beginning of a Novel,” tr. Michael Holland, in The Blanchot Reader, ed. Michael Holland, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1995, pp. 33-34.
  • “The Recent Novel,” tr. Roland François Lack, in The Blanchot Reader, ed. Michael Holland, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1995, pp. 35-37.
  • “The Pure Novel,” tr. Roland François Lack, in The Blanchot Reader, ed. Michael Holland, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1995, pp. 38-42.
  • “Mallarmé and the Art of the Novel,” tr. Roland François Lack, in The Blanchot Reader, ed. Michael Holland, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1995, pp. 43-48.
  • “How is Literature Possible?,” tr. Michael Syrotinski, in The Blanchot Reader, ed. Michael Holland, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1995, pp. 49-60.
  • “The Novel is a Work of Bad Faith,” tr. Michael Holland, in The Blanchot Reader, ed. Michael Holland, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1995, pp. 61-73.
  • “Sade’s Reason,” tr. Bernard Wall, in The Blanchot Reader, ed. Michael Holland, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1995, pp. 74-99.
  • “Madness par excellence,” tr. Ann Smock, in The Blanchot Reader, ed. Michael Holland, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1995, pp. 110.
  • “Artaud,” tr. Ian Maclachlan, in The Blanchot Reader, ed. Michael Holland, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1995, pp. 129.
  • “The Disappearance of Literature,” tr. Ian Maclachlan, in The Blanchot Reader, ed. Michael Holland, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1995, pp. 136.
  • “The Pursuit of the Zero Point,” tr. Ian Maclachlan, in The Blanchot Reader, ed. Michael Holland, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1995, pp. 143.
  • “The Death of the Last Writer,” tr. Leslie Hill, in The Blanchot Reader, ed. Michael Holland, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1995, pp. 151.
  • “The Great Hoax,” tr. Ann Smock, in The Blanchot Reader, ed. Michael Holland, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1995, pp. 157.
  • “Essential Perversion,” tr. Michael Holland, in The Blanchot Reader, ed. Michael Holland, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1995, pp. 167.
  • “On a Change of Epoch,” tr. Susan Hanson, in The Blanchot Reader, ed. Michael Holland, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1995, pp. 174.
  • “The Right to Insubordination,” tr. Michael Holland, in The Blanchot Reader, ed. Michael Holland, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1995, pp. 196.
  • “Disorderly Words,” tr. Michael Holland, in The Blanchot Reader, ed. Michael Holland, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1995, pp. 200.
  • “Intellectuals under Scrutiny,” tr. Michael Holland, in The Blanchot Reader, ed. Michael Holland, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1995, pp. 206.
  • “Being Jewish,” tr. Susan Hanson, in The Blanchot Reader, ed. Michael Holland, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1995, pp. 228.
  • “Humankind,” tr. Susan Hanson, in The Blanchot Reader, ed. Michael Holland, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1995, pp. 235.
  • “‘Do Not Forget’,” tr. Michael Holland, in The Blanchot Reader, ed. Michael Holland, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1995, pp. 245.
  • “The Name Berlin,” tr. Michael Holland, in The Blanchot Reader, ed. Michael Holland, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1995, pp. 266.
  • “The Conquest of Space,” tr. Christopher C. Stevens, in The Blanchot Reader, ed. Michael Holland, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1995, pp. 269.
  • “Waiting,” tr. Michael Holland, in The Blanchot Reader, ed. Michael Holland, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1995, pp. 272-78.
  • “The Exigency of Return*,” tr. Susan Hanson, in The Blanchot Reader, ed. Michael Holland, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1995, pp. 279.
  • “The Exigency of Return,” tr. Michael Holland, in The Blanchot Reader, ed. Michael Holland, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1995, pp. 290.
  • “Oh All to End,” tr. Leslie Hill, in The Blanchot Reader, ed. Michael Holland, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1995, pp. 298.
  • “The Ease of Dying,” tr. Michael Syrotinski, in The Blanchot Reader, ed. Michael Holland, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1995, pp. 301.
  • “Thanks (Be Given) to Jacques Derrida ,” tr. Leslie Hill, in The Blanchot Reader, ed. Michael Holland, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1995, pp. 317.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

English Reviews

 

  • Dickison, Steve. “Maurice BLANCHOT: The One Who Was Standing Apart from Me” (Book Review), The Review of Contemporary Fiction (Fall, 1994) 14:3, p. 214.
  • Evenson, Brian. “Maurice BLANCHOT: The Infinite Conversation,” (Book Review), The Review of Contemporary Fiction, (Fall, 1993), 13:3, p241-2.
  • Fowlie, Wallace. “Maurice BLANCHOT: The Work of Fire” (Book Review), The Sewanee Review (Spring, 1996), 104:2, pp. XXXVII-XXXIX.
  • Ivey, Robert T. “Maurice Blanchot: Friendship” (Book Review), Library Journal (August) 122:13, 1997 pp. 90-1.
  • Irvine, Ann. “Maurice BLANCHOT: The Infinite Conversation” (Book Review), Library Journal (December, 1992), 117:21, p. 138.
  • Josipovici, Gabriel. “Maurice BLANCHOT: The Work of Fire” (Book Review), Times Literary Supplement, Oct 27, 1995, p. 26.
  • Josipovici, Gabriel. Times Literary Supplement (October 27, 1995), p. 26.
  • Lukacher, N. Choice (October, 1995), 33:2, p. 298.
  • Lowenthal, Marc. “Maurice BLANCHOT: The Most High” (Book Review), The Review of Contemporary Fiction (Fall, 1996), 16:3, pp. 184-5.
  • Malin, Irving. “Maurice BLANCHOT: “Thomas the Obscure” (Book Review), The Review of Contemporary Fiction Summer (1989), 9:2, pp. 241-2.
  • St. George, Andrew. “Maurice BLANCHOT: Thomas the Obscure (Book Review), The New York Times Book Review, March 26, 1989, p. 16.
  • Steinberg, Sybil. “Maurice BLANCHOT: Thomas the Obscure” (Book Review), Publishers Weekly, Sept 16, 1988 234:12, p. 78.
  • Steinberg, Sybil. “Maurice BLANCHOT: The Last Man (Book Review), Publishers Weekly, Sept 25, 1987, 232, p.92-3.
  • Stuttaford, Genevieve. “Maurice BLANCHOT: The Unavowable Community” (Book Review), Publishers Weekly, Aug 26, 1988 234:9, p. 71.
  • Stuttaford Genevieve. Foucault-Blanchot (Book Review), Publishers Weekly, Dec 4, 1987, 232:23, p. 59-60.
  • Updike, John. “Maurice BLANCHOT: Death Sentence” (Book Review), The New Yorker, January 11, 1982, 57, p. 93-4.