Marking Time: Derrida Blanchot Beckett des Forêts Klossowski Laporte

Product Description Drawing on the work of Jacques Derrida, Marking Time presents an innovative account of literary time, in which the temporality and ontology of the literary are seen to be essentially intertwined. Individual chapters trace the stakes of this view of time for the status and 'economy' of the literary text across five 20th-century writers in French whose work is characterized by a fundamental and searching self-questioning: Maurice Blanchot, Samuel Beckett, Louis-René des Forêts, Pierre Klossowski, and Roger Laporte. A final chapter draws on these analyses to develop an inherently unstable figure of 'saving time', which has important repercussions for how we conceive of literary value. Review "L'originalite et l'interet de cette etude consiste a considerer la question du temps en rapport avec une economie heteronome qui est exemplifiee par la logique du "saving time: preserver ou reserver et sauver sans restitution ou sans salut, de maniere simultanee." - Idola Quintana Dominguez, Les Lettres romanes "Ian Maclachlan's Marking Time is a very significant critical, theoretical, and scholarly achievement." - Ian James, MHRA About the Author Ian Maclachlan is University Lecturer and Tutorial Fellow in French at Merton College, Oxford.