Imperative to Write Fort Jeff
Imperative to Write Fort Jeff Is writing haunted by a categorical imperative? What precise shape, form, or figure does this residue of sublimity take in the fictions that follow from itand that leave…
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Imperative to Write Fort Jeff
Is writing haunted by a categorical imperative? What precise shape, form, or figure does this residue of sublimity take in the fictions that follow from itand that leave it in ruins?This book explores these questions through readings of three authors who bear witness to an ambiguous exigency: writing as a demanding and exclusive task, at odds with life, but also a mere compulsion, a drive without end or reason, even a kind of torture. Does the Kantian sublime continue to shape the writer's vocation, even for twentieth-century authors?
As this book argues, the sublime has always been a deeply melancholy affair, even in its classical If Kafka, Blanchot, and Beckett mimic a sublime vocation in their extreme devotion to writing, they do so in full awareness that the trajectory it dictates leads not to metaphysical redemption but rather downward, into the uncanny element of fiction.