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- Title
Radnóti, Blanchot, and the (Un)writing of Disaster.
- Authors
Gosetti-Ferencei, Jennifer Anna
- Abstract
In her article "Radnóti, Blanchot, and the (Un)writing of Disaster" Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei applies Maurice Blanchot's notion of disaster to the Holocaust poetry of Miklós Radnóti (1909-1944). Radnóti's work contemplates a catastrophic present and brings authorial experience and the writing self to the fore. Blanchot's thought may help us to understand Radnóti's poetry, yet paradoxically so, since the poems repel Blanchot's central formulations about the passivity and sacrifice of the author and, in his reflections on Kafka, about the uncertainty of death. Gosetti-Ferencei's study shows that despite divergences Blanchot's treatment of writing and authorship illuminates these themes in Radnóti's poems and that the latter also sheds new critical light on Blanchot's elusive understanding of disaster.
- Subjects
RADNOTI, Miklos, 1909-1944; HUNGARIAN poets; HUNGARIAN poetry; HOLOCAUST, 1939-1945, in literature; THEMES in poetry
- Publication
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature & Culture: A Web Journal, 2015, Vol 17, Issue 2, p1
- ISSN
1481-4374
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7771/1481-4374.2435