{"product_id":"aminadab-french-modernist-library","title":"Aminadab (French Modernist Library)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe world of Aminadab, Maurice Blanchots second novel, is dark, bizarre, and fantastic. Reminiscent of Kafkas enclosed and allegorical spaces, Aminadab is both a reconstruction and a deconstruction of power, authority, and hierarchy. The novel opens when Thomas, upon seeing a woman gesture to him from a window of a large boarding house, enters the building and slowly becomes embroiled in its inscrutable workings.Although Thomas is constantly reassured that he can leave the building, he seems to be separated forever from the world he has left behind. The story consists of Thomass frustrated attempts to clarify his status as a resident in the building and his misguided interactions with the cast of sickly, depraved, or in some way deformed characters he meets, none of them ever quite what they seem to be. Aminadab, the man who according to legend guards the entrance to the buildings underground spaces, is only one of the mysteries reified by the rumors circulating among the residents.Written in a prose that is classical and at times lyrical, Blanchots novel functions as an allegory referring, above all, to the wandering and striving movement of writing itself.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bison Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45900732924102,"sku":"DADAX0803261764","price":31.28,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0695\/9389\/1014\/files\/61wx6clB-fL.jpg?v=1780317295","url":"https:\/\/ergodemedia.com\/products\/aminadab-french-modernist-library","provider":"Ergodemedia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}