{"product_id":"thomas-the-obscure-9780882680767","title":"Thomas the Obscure","description":"Before Sartre, before Beckett, before Robbe-Grillet, Maurice Blanchot created the new novel, the ultimate post-modern fiction. Written between 1932 and 1940, Blanchot's first novel, here brilliantly translated by Robert Lamberton, contains all the remarkable aspects of his famous and perplexing invention, the ontological narrative--a tale whose subject is the nature of being itself. This paradoxical work discovers being in the absence of being, mystery in the absence of mystery, both to be searched for limitlessly. As Blanchot launches this endless search in his own masterful way, he transforms the possibilities of the novel. First issued in English in 1973 in a limited edition, this re-issue includes an illuminating essay on translation by Lamberton.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Barrytown Limited\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/06\/1995\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780882680767\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 124\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.42lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.02w x 0.34d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/16\/1988\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Maurice Blanchot","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36645646762140,"sku":"9780882680767","price":13.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_a61cf908-14a9-4ee9-b721-140b96454cda.jpg?v=1603861707","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/thomas-the-obscure-9780882680767","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}