Genealogies of the Text: Literature, Psychoanalysis, and Politics in Modern France

di Jeffrey Mehlman (Autore)

Cambridge University Press, 2006

In this 1995 book, which includes a substantial introduction, Jeffrey Mehlman confronts the politically devastating resonances in the work of several leading French writers. The essays focus on the series of enigmas surrounding the 'Blanchot affair' - a scandal provoked by Mehlman's revelation in 1977 that Maurice Blanchot, one of the tutelary figures of contemporary French thought, had in the 1930s been a prominent fascist journalist. Mehlman takes the issue of Blanchot's forgotten political essays deep into the most revered - and misunderstood - of his novels, L'Arret de mort. Using this affair as a point of departure, Mehlman sheds light on the question of the usability of psychoanalysis for literary readings (examining, for example, Baudelaire, Mallarme and Valery); he also investigates the ideological and political connotations of similar literary and theoretical material. The volume as a whole provides a consistently provocative meditation on literature, ethics, and the experience of the French in World War II.

• Autore: Jeffrey Mehlman
• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Collana: Cambridge Studies in French
• Anno: 2006
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 276 p.
• Dimensioni: 215 x 137 mm
• Peso: 359 gr.
• EAN: 9780521032353

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