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Review: The Writing of the Disaster

User Review  - Azarin - Goodreads

Breathtaking prose, intelligent writing, one of the best philosophical texts I've ever read. I have also read his work in French and I have to say that the English translation never reaches the beauty ... Read full review

Review: The Writing of the Disaster

User Review - Goodreads

This book is a meditation, not a philosophical argument. The argument may commence once the book has been read, of course.

Review: The Writing of the Disaster

User Review  - Tyler - Goodreads

This is one of the more depressing things I've ever read. It's entirely about the inevitable, impending disaster that we all will experience, in some form, during our lives. There are some oddly ... Read full review

Review: The Writing of the Disaster

User Review  - Ian - Goodreads

I can't say that I'm usually a huge fan of philosophical texts; I figured I was taking a gamble by picking this one up. A philosophical theory book written in fragments that deals with the holocaust ... Read full review

Review: The Writing of the Disaster

User Review  - Kim - Goodreads

Accessible, passionate theory. I'm reading this obsessively as I work on a long poem. In a sense, the strangest writing "how-to" book ever written. Read full review

Review: The Writing of the Disaster

User Review  - Nicholas - Goodreads

"The disaster ruins everything, all while leaving everything intact." and go... Read full review

Review: The Writing of the Disaster

User Review  - Bamboo - Goodreads

For class. Read full review

Review: The Writing of the Disaster

User Review  - Kimberly - Goodreads

This book was required reading for a German culture course I took on representations of the Holocaust in literature and film. I found that Blanchot's point that to know history we have to pick through the garbage to be very true. Read full review

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