Aminadab

"Aminadab is a startling provocation, a gauntlet thrown down to the fiction reader-and yet there is no complicated theory or code to be cracked in order to participate in the originality of Maurice Blanchot's 1942 novel. Maurice Blanchot may hardly be a household name in America, but in some circles he is one of the essential writers of the 20th century... Every sentence of Aminadab is an invitation to think, about language, about responsibility, about life. Blanchot's density requires us to slow down our reading; he makes us pause, grow uncomfortable. Yet we are taken by Blanchot's seerlike ability to penetrate to the core of some of the darker aspects of the 20th century."-Thomas McGonigle, Washington Post Book World -- Thomas McGonigle Washington Post Book World "(Blanchot's fictions) explore the difficulty and frustration of grasping and communicating meaning in a universe that seems complacently devoid of it... This important publication offers the perfect introduction to an elusive, recondite, and unusually rewarding writer."-Kirkus Reviews Kirkus Reviews "Blanchot's work continually challenges the limits of form and language, continually forces us to question what we know and how we put that knowledge (if it in fact exists) into a language that always resists us... Nebraska has been at the forefront of bringing Blanchot's work into English translation... And this volume, with Fort's introduction, joins earlier translations by Ann Smock of The Space of Literature and The Writing Disaster as some of the most important work on Blanchot in English thus far."-Jason D. Fichtel, Review of Contemporary Fiction -- Jason D. Fichtel Review of Contemporary Fiction