Leslie Hill is Professor of French Studies at the University of Warwick, UK. He is the author of Beckett's Fiction: In Different Words (Cambridge University Press, 1990), Marguerite Duras: Apocalyptic Desires (Routledge, 1993), Blanchot: Extreme Contemporary (Routledge, 1997), Bataille, Klossowski, Blanchot: Writing at the Limit (Oxford University Press, 2001) The Cambridge Introduction to Jacques Derrida (Cambridge University Press, 2007) and Radical Indecision: Barthes, Blanchot, Derrida, and the Future of Criticism (Notre Dame University Press, 2010). He is also the co-editor of After Blanchot: Literature, Philosophy, Criticism (University of Delaware Press, 2005).

• Chapter One: A Turning1. A spectre2. Writing the future3. From fragment to fragmentary4. The limits of nihilism5. Radical suspensionChapter Two: The Demand of the Fragmentary1. A gift2. A double voice3. Presence without presentChapter Three: An Interruption1. From threshold to threshold2. A step further3. The law of return4. Voice without voice5. A politics of the fragmentary6. Burying the dead Chapter Four: Writing — Disaster1. What is called disaster?2. Another epoch3. What happened4. The youngest dayChapter Five: A Change of Epoch Bibliography Index

"Maurice Blanchot and Fragmentary Writing is a remarkable study of the most extraordinary and enduring literary figure in twentieth-century France. An acknowledged authority on Blanchot and his peers, Leslie Hill guides the reader through some of the most difficult and exciting writing produced after the Second World War: his remarks on the imbrications of literature and philosophy are never less than illuminating. Any new book by Leslie Hill is an event in French Studies, and this one is no exception." -- Kevin Hart, Edwin B. Kyle Professor of Christian Studies in the Department of Religious Studies, University of Virginia, USA