Dark Thomas Author: [France] Maurice Blanchot Publisher: Nanjing University Press

Dark Thomas is Blanchot's first "fictional work". The English and German translators of this book have not concealed the difficulty of translating and even reading it. Foucault once pointed out that one of the characteristics of Blanchot's works is "a dynasty that is detached from representations", which is consistent with the reading experience of Dark Thomas: a love without past, future, motivation, or reason is so shallow that it is difficult for people to have a clear image, but these imageless images are like nightmares that are hard to give up.

An unstable work. Harold Bloom put this book on the list of recommended books for the troubled times in the appendix of The Western Canon, which is unexpectedly appropriate. In his famous lecture, the master of psychoanalysis Lacan praised Dark Thomas as a "realization of fantasy". For Chinese readers, the publication of the Chinese version of Dark Thomas will undoubtedly fill in the missing link in French thought.

Maurice Blanchot, a famous French writer and thinker, was born in Saône-et-Loire in 1907 and died in Paris in 2003. Blanchot kept a low profile throughout his life and refused to be interviewed or photographed after middle age, but his works and thoughts have influenced the entire contemporary French intellectual world and have had a profound impact on many great French intellectuals and writers such as Georges Bataille, Levinas, Sartre, Foucault, Roland Barthes, Derrida, etc.