Christopher Langlois teaches in the Department of English at Dawson College, Montréal, Canada. He has published articles in such journals as Twentieth-Century Literature, College Literature, Mosaic, Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd'hui, and the Faulkner Journal, and he is the editor of Understanding Blanchot, Understanding Modernism (Bloomsbury 2018).

Langlois’s book is a rigorous study of literary terror in theoretical and aesthetic modernism in Europe. It is not only a welcome addition to literature on Blanchot and Beckett, but also an important contribution towards understanding terror as a historical affect with onto-epistemological qualities. In our world, where terrorism has become perhaps the most important global problem, the book conceptually investigates this important notion of terror and even resignifies it in the process. It raises serious questions about any simplistic construction of a literary ethic by reminding us how the literary is itself the ontological hotbed of terror.

• Introduction: Terror in Philosophy, Politics, and Literature 1. The Terror of Thinking in The Unnamable2. The Beginning (Again) and Ending (Again) of Terror in Texts for Nothing3. The Writing of How It Is in the Paratactic Delay of Terror4. The Terror of Passivity in Company, Ill Seen Ill Said, and Worstward HoCoda: Literature at the Turning Point of Terror

Christopher Langlois teaches in the Department of English at Dawson College, Montréal, Canada. He has published articles in such journals as Twentieth-Century Literature, College Literature, Mosaic, Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd'hui, and the Faulkner Journal, and he is the editor of Understanding Blanchot, Understanding Modernism (Bloomsbury 2018).

Langlois’s book is a rigorous study of literary terror in theoretical and aesthetic modernism in Europe. It is not only a welcome addition to literature on Blanchot and Beckett, but also an important contribution towards understanding terror as a historical affect with onto-epistemological qualities. In our world, where terrorism has become perhaps the most important global problem, the book conceptually investigates this important notion of terror and even resignifies it in the process. It raises serious questions about any simplistic construction of a literary ethic by reminding us how the literary is itself the ontological hotbed of terror.

• Introduction: Terror in Philosophy, Politics, and Literature 1. The Terror of Thinking in The Unnamable2. The Beginning (Again) and Ending (Again) of Terror in Texts for Nothing3. The Writing of How It Is in the Paratactic Delay of Terror4. The Terror of Passivity in Company, Ill Seen Ill Said, and Worstward HoCoda: Literature at the Turning Point of Terror

Christopher Langlois teaches in the Department of English at Dawson College, Montréal, Canada. He has published articles in such journals as Twentieth-Century Literature, College Literature, Mosaic, Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd'hui, and the Faulkner Journal, and he is the editor of Understanding Blanchot, Understanding Modernism (Bloomsbury 2018).

Langlois’s book is a rigorous study of literary terror in theoretical and aesthetic modernism in Europe. It is not only a welcome addition to literature on Blanchot and Beckett, but also an important contribution towards understanding terror as a historical affect with onto-epistemological qualities. In our world, where terrorism has become perhaps the most important global problem, the book conceptually investigates this important notion of terror and even resignifies it in the process. It raises serious questions about any simplistic construction of a literary ethic by reminding us how the literary is itself the ontological hotbed of terror.

• Introduction: Terror in Philosophy, Politics, and Literature 1. The Terror of Thinking in The Unnamable2. The Beginning (Again) and Ending (Again) of Terror in Texts for Nothing3. The Writing of How It Is in the Paratactic Delay of Terror4. The Terror of Passivity in Company, Ill Seen Ill Said, and Worstward HoCoda: Literature at the Turning Point of Terror