WRITER

Maurice Blanchot

1907 - 2003

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Maurice Blanchot ( blahn-SHOH; French: [blɑ̃ʃo]; 22 September 1907 – 20 February 2003) was a French writer, philosopher and literary theorist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Maurice Blanchot has received more than 425,926 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia. Maurice Blanchot is the 676th most popular writer (down from 616th in 2019), the 801st most popular biography from France (down from 732nd in 2019) and the 110th most popular French Writer.

Maurice Blanchot is most famous for his literary criticism, essays, and novels.

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Notable Works

La part du feu
Literature
1949
Thomas l'obscur
1950
Le dernier à parler
1984
L' espace littéraire
1955
Lautréamont et Sade
1949
Faux pas
Literary Criticism
Published in France in 1943, Faux Pas is the first collection of essays on literature and language by Maurice Blanchot, the most lucid and powerful French critic of the second half of the 20th century.
1943

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Maurice Blanchot ranks 676 out of 7,302. Before him are H. L. Mencken, Carlo Gozzi, Douglas Adams, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lawrence Durrell, and Marie de France. After him are Sei Shōnagon, Bernard Gui, André Chénier, Novatian, Phillis Wheatley, and Derek Walcott.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Maurice Blanchot ranks 37. Before him are Daniel Bovet, Daphne du Maurier, Otto Ohlendorf, Hans Selye, Burgess Meredith, and Giovanna of Italy. After him are Erich Mielke, Roman Shukhevych, Dora Maar, Konstantinos Karamanlis, Lucien Laurent, and Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia. Among people deceased in 2003, Maurice Blanchot ranks 24. Before him are Elia Kazan, Leopoldo Galtieri, Robert Kardashian, Gianni Agnelli, Zoran Đinđić, and Otto Günsche. After him are Luciano Berio, Frederick Chapman Robbins, Bernard Katz, Helmut Rahn, Isser Harel, and Alberto Sordi.

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In France

Among people born in France, Maurice Blanchot ranks 801 out of 6,770. Before him are Marie de France (1101), Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse (1741), Henri Lefebvre (1901), Marcel Carné (1906), Vincent Cassel (1966), and Jean-Pierre Melville (1917). After him are Bernard Gui (1261), Saint Remigius (437), Léon Bourgeois (1851), Robert Nivelle (1856), Inessa Armand (1874), and André Frédéric Cournand (1895).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Maurice Blanchot ranks 110. Before him are Pierre Loti (1850), Madame Roland (1754), Raymond Queneau (1903), Eugène Sue (1804), Frontinus (30), and Marie de France (1101). After him are Bernard Gui (1261), Jean Froissart (1337), Maurice Denis (1870), Max Jacob (1876), Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755), and Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné (1626).

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