This volume, a powerful short prose piece by Blanchot with an extended essay by Derrida, records a remarkable encounter in critical and philosophical thinking.

Thomas enters a boarding house, but can't seem to leave.

This book is a translation of Maurice Blanchot's work that is of major importance to late 20th-century literature and philosophy studies.

"Through more than 40 years, the French writer Maurice Blanchot has produced an astonishing body of fiction and criticism," writes Gilbert Sorrentino in the New York Review of Books, and John Updike in The New Yorker: "Blanchot's prose ...

Included in The Station Hill Blanchot Reader, this book's renewed availability as a convenient individual volume will be welcomed by fiction readers, students and teachers.

A lonely man at a mysterious sanatorium overlooking the sea is befriended by a young woman with a jealous boyfriend

A selection of Blanchot's fiction and literary essays.

The volume concludes with a consideration of Blanchot's development of the `fragment', in his philosophical and his political writings, as well as in those devoted to literature.

"-Translation Review Maurice Blanchot has been for a half century one of France's leading authors of fiction and theory.