"Blanchot's narratives are here read with the care, patience, and thoroughness they deserve. The collection sustains a remarkable intensity of engagement throughout, in so doing opening these
narratives out to their necessary context---philosophical, of course; but also literary, political, theological, and biographical---with welcome dedication and integrity."---Martin Crowley,
Queens' College, University of Cambridge
"This outstanding collection---lucid, engaging, generous---illuminates Blanchot and the very notion of `the philosophical."---Gerald Prince, University of Pennsylvania
"This collection contains some very important pieces on a major figure of twentieth-century modernism. Blanchot now has a much wider audience in North American than he did even a few years ago,
when it was mostly experimental fiction writers like Paul Auster, Lydia Davis, R. M. Berry, and Steve Tomasula---not literary critics---who took an interest in Blanchot's literary writings. The
focus on the `narratives' (or, better, `fictions') sets this volume apart from, and makes it a good deal more stimulating than, other recent collections of essays on Blanchot."---Gerald Bruns,
University of Notre Dame
