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Stephen Mitchelmore Oracle Night – Paul Auster See all books by Paul Auster at Amazon.co.uk | Amazon.com Oracle Night is the first Paul Auster novel I’ve read since Leviathan in 1992. Until then, I had read every book. This was not

Stephen Mitchelmore Nowhere Without No – Maurice Blanchot See all books by Maurice Blanchot at Amazon.co.uk | Amazon.com Not half way through the year but already a book has come along that, at the end, I will say: this is it

Stephen Mitchelmore All Souls’ Day – Cees Nooteboom See all books by Cees Nooteboom at Amazon.co.uk | Amazon.com "The shortcut does not allow one to arrive someplace more directly (more quickly), but rather to lose

Stephen Mitchelmore on the writing of Maurice Blanchot There are many remarkable facts about the long life of the French novelist and philosopher Maurice Blanchot. The strident – perhaps Fascist – nationalism of his pre-War journalism;

Stephen Mitchelmore Routledge Critical Thinkers: Martin Heidegger – Timothy Clark See all books by Timothy Clark at Amazon.co.uk | Amazon.com The Routledge Critical Thinkers series is turning into something special. Maurice Blanchot by

Stephen Mitchelmore Proust and Signs – Gilles Deleuze See all books by Gilles Deleuze at Amazon.co.uk | Amazon.com This isn’t a new book. The French original was published in 1964 and in English eight years later. But

Stephen Mitchelmore explores the post-Holocaust poetry of Paul Celan “With a variable key you unlock the house in which drifts the snow of that left unspoken. Always what key you choose depends on the blood that

Stephen Mitchelmore explains why the writing of E.M. Cioran refuses explanation “Nothing is more irritating than those works which ‘co-ordinate’ the luxuriant products of a mind that has focused on