The Narration of “Forgetting” in Blanchot’s Fiction

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10.2991/assehr.k.201215.367How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Blanchot, forgetting, narration

Abstract

Blanchot’s forgetting is not a purely mental illness in his writing, but a kind of emotional convergent, which pushes the human experience to a limit. This article mainly uses schizophrenic analysis to examine the narration of forgetting in Blanchot’s fiction, and explores how the strong emotions and desire hid in forgetting help Blanchot build his literary space. This article points out that forgetting can serve as a positive power to break the linear history process in its immobility, so as to realize the rewriting of history. Besides, forgetting as a strong affect promotes the development of the story and makes the structure of the novel present a multi-dimensional narrative space. In forgetting, Blanchot suspends time in order to realize a paradoxical coexistence between the past and the present.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Wenwen Liu
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/12/18
TI  - The Narration of “Forgetting” in Blanchot’s Fiction
BT  - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Education, Language, Art and Inter-cultural Communication (ICELAIC 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 407
EP  - 412
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201215.367
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.201215.367
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