"The Book to Come" - The Book to Come

...His interest is directed to the fact that the strange space that emerges around death, where everyday time disappears, and that emerges when a person approaches death, has the same structure as the space into which a writer enters when approaching the absolute with language. In novels such as "Thomas l'obscur" (1941, new draft 1950) and "Aminadab" (1942), he depicts a state in which the subject collapses and can only wander, trying to grasp the elusive, by dissolving such a state into a fantastical story, and in his collections of essays such as "L'espace littéraire" (1955) and "Le livre à venir" (1959), he analyzes the fate of literary thought that challenges the absolute, using Mallarmé and Kafka as examples. Furthermore, after "Forgetfulness of Expectation" (1961), in "Endless Dialogue" (1969), the collection of fragments "Walking Beyond" (1973), and "Writing Disaster" (1980), he revealed, acting out in his own critical language, how literature ultimately leads to the fragmentation of literature itself.

*Some of the terminology referenced in "The Book to Come" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…その関心は，人が死に近づくとき死の周辺に浮かび上がる，日常的な時間の消失した奇怪な空間と，言語をもって絶対的なものに迫っていくとき作家が入り込んでしまう空間とが構造を同じくしていることに向けられる。主体は崩壊し，とらえ得ぬものを，なおとらえようとして彷徨するしかないような状態，小説《謎の男トマThomas l’obscur》(1941，新稿1950)，《アミナダブAminadab》(1942)などはそういう状態を幻想的物語に溶かし込んで描いており，評論集《文学空間L’espace littéraire》(1955)，《来るべき書物Le livre à venir》(1959)などは，マラルメやカフカを例に絶対的なものに挑む文学思考のたどる運命を分析した。さらに《期待忘却》(1961)をへて，《終りなき対話》(1969)や断章集《彼方への歩み》(1973)，《災厄のエクリチュール》(1980)では文学がついに文学自体の散乱にいたることを彼自身の批評言語で演じつつ暴いている。…

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