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Maurice Blanchot
Explores the process of reading as well as the nature of artistic creativity, all the while considering the relation of the literary work to time, to history, and to death…
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Ann Smock
Uses the ideas of Maurice Blanchot to clarify puzzling works by Melville, des Forets, and Beckett.
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Juxtaposes five contemporary French poets, illuminating the philosophical elements of their work while making their sometimes difficult writing newly accessible.
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Reflects upon efforts to abide in disaster’s infinite threat. First published in French in 1980, this title takes up the most serious tasks of writing: to describe, explain, and redeem…
Sarah Kofman
A memoir by the author who presents an account of the horrifying moment in July 1942 when her father, the rabbi of a small synagogue, was dragged by police from…
Linda Ann Casey Smock
Ringo and the gang have heard Janet and Jerry will be going on vacation in the summer to the Jersey Shore. What is the shore like? Well, Ringo wants to…
Ringo has an idea on how to free Tahoe’s friends from the pound. But it will take all his buddies - the crow, the squirrel and the monkeys - to…
Ringo, Cookie, and Tahoe have played in the park many times. But when they go back to visit with their new friends, Cupcake and Norbert, they find a very different…
Norbert Steals the Show is the 4th book in the Ringo Adventure Series. Norbert has never been to a circus. When he hears Janet and Jerry begging their dad to…
Ringo and Norbert have fallen in love with the adorable and sweet Cocoa Bean. They are best buddies so how can this happen? They don’t know what to do so…
Denis Guenoun
An account of what it was like to be Algerian, Jewish, and French at a time when those identities were fighting words.
Werner Hamacher
Werner Hamacher’s witty and elliptical 95 Theses on Philology challenges the humanities-and particularly academic philology-that assume language to be a given entity rather than an event. In Give the Word…
