The Writing of Disaster

If the notion of disaster evokes apocalyptic literature as a genre and the tradition of Lamentations (Jeremiah), on the other hand, these references don’t fully pertain to the writing of disaster which, as such, goes back to Maurice Blanchot. This writer particularly developed it in his eponymous collection, composed of fragments, The Writing of the Disaster (1980) published seven years after The Step Not Beyond thus creating a sort of diptych. Emerging then at this point in time within the i..