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Book Review: Experiencing the Everyday in Maurice Blanchot’s “Everyday Speech”

Blanchot, M. (1987). “Everyday speech” (S. Hanson, Trans.). Yale French Studies, 73, 12-20. (Original work published 1959)
Reviewed by Amy Macdonald, University of Alberta

What is the everyday? This question might seem unnecessary and superfluous. Are we not surrounded by it, steeped in it? Is it not something we can know and understand naturally, something we can [...]