Awaiting Oblivion
By: Maurice Blanchot
4.03
Format: 87 pages, Paperback
Maurice Blanchot has been for a half century one of France's leading authors of fiction and theory.…
Want to Read"Attendre, se rendre attentif à ce qui fait de l'attente un acte neutre, enroulé sur soi, serré en cercles dont le plus intérieur et le plus extérieur coïncident, attention distraite en attente et jusqu'à l'inattendu. Attente, attente qui est le refus de rien attendre, calme étendue déroulée par les pas."-Maurice Blanchot, Awaiting Oblivion
"Attendre, se rendre attentif à ce qui fait de l'attente un acte neutre, enroulé sur soi, serré en cercles dont le plus intérieur et le plus extérieur coïncident, attention distraite en attente et jusqu'à l'inattendu. Attente, attente qui est le refus de rien attendre, calme étendue déroulée par les pas."-Maurice Blanchot, Awaiting Oblivion
"+ Since when had he started to wait? Since he had made himself free for waiting by losing the desire for particular things, including the desire for the end of things. Waiting begins when there is nothing more to wait for, not even the end of waiting. Waiting is unaware of and destroys that which awaits. Waiting awaits nothing. Whatever the importance of the object of waiting may be, it is always infinitely surpassed by the movement of waiting. Waiting renders all things equally important, equally vain. In order to wait for the slightest thing, we have at our disposal an infinite capacity for waiting that seems inexhaustible."-Maurice Blanchot, Awaiting Oblivion
"+ Since when had he started to wait? Since he had made himself free for waiting by losing the desire for particular things, including the desire for the end of things. Waiting begins when there is nothing more to wait for, not even the end of waiting. Waiting is unaware of and destroys that which awaits. Waiting awaits nothing. Whatever the importance of the object of waiting may be, it is always infinitely surpassed by the movement of waiting. Waiting renders all things equally important, equally vain. In order to wait for the slightest thing, we have at our disposal an infinite capacity for waiting that seems inexhaustible."-Maurice Blanchot, Awaiting Oblivion
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1. The Recognitions
By: William H. Gass , William Gaddis
4.20
Format: 976 pages, Paperback
The book Jonathan Franzen dubbed the "ur-text of postwar fiction" and the "first great cultural cri… read more
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"Women get desperate, but they don't understand despair."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
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2. The Double
By: Margaret Jull Costa , José Saramago
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Format: 324 pages, Hardcover
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3. Aramızdaki En Kısa Mesafe
By: Barış Bıçakçı
3.85
Format: 99 pages, Paperback
Asıl öykü ile ilgilenmeyen bir anlatıcı ve yetişkinliğe varmayan bir çocukluğun öyküleri. Aynı soya… read more
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"Bu dünyada “hiçbir şey göründüğü hatta yaşandığı gibi değil, her şey hatırlandığı gibi!"-Barış Bıçakçı, Aramızdaki En Kısa Mesafe
"Bir felsefeci ölü bulunduğunda akla gelecek ilk şüpheli elbette kafasındaki fikirlerdi."-Barış Bıçakçı, Aramızdaki En Kısa Mesafe
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4. Irene's Cunt
By: Louis Aragon , Alexis Lykiard
3.55
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
First published anonymously in France in 1928, Le Con d'Irene, is the last 'lost' masterpiece of Su… read more
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By: Kahlil Gibran
3.82
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
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By: Harry Mathews , Georges Bataille , Ken Hollings
3.86
Format: 568 pages, Paperback
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7. A Breath of Life
By: Clarice Lispector , Benjamin Moser , Johnny Lorenz
3.83
Format: None pages, Paperback
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8. Az Şekerli
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4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
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By: Herman Melville
3.93
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
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"I would prefer not to."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
"To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
"Bartleby in a singularly mild, firm voice, replied, “I would prefer not to."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
"At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable,' was his mildly cadaverous reply."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
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3.66
Format: 259 pages,
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4.16
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12. The Gospel According to Jesus Christ
By: José Saramago
3.63
Format: 256 pages, Unknown Binding
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By: Jean Baudrillard
3.25
Format: 40 pages, Paperback
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4.07
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"Ahora tú también estás muerto, Johannes, dice Peter Te moriste esta mañana, dice Y como yo era tu mejor amigo, me enviaron a recogerte, dice Pero ¿por qué hemos pescado cangrejos? dice Johannes Tenía…"-Jon Fosse, Mañana y tarde
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4.34
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20. Getting Lost
By: Annie Ernaux
3.44
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
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21. Awaiting Oblivion
By: Maurice Blanchot
4.03
Format: 87 pages, Paperback
Maurice Blanchot has been for a half century one of France's leading authors of fiction and theory.… read more
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"Attendre, se rendre attentif à ce qui fait de l'attente un acte neutre, enroulé sur soi, serré en cercles dont le plus intérieur et le plus extérieur coïncident, attention distraite en attente et jus…"-Maurice Blanchot, Awaiting Oblivion
"+ Since when had he started to wait? Since he had made himself free for waiting by losing the desire for particular things, including the desire for the end of things. Waiting begins when there is no…"-Maurice Blanchot, Awaiting Oblivion
