Maurice Blanchot's entire fictional production, whose titles include The Step Not Beyond, The madness of the Day, and The Writing of Disaster, among others, constitutes an indispensable corpus for the treatment of the relationship between philosophy and literature.

Becoming enamoured with Blanchot's literary style and critical theories, in several later works he adopted Blanchot's technique of " interviewing " himself.

On the other hand, Blanchot's own literary works, like the famous Thomas the Obscure, heavily influenced Levinas ' and Bataille's ideas about the possibility that our vision of reality is blurred because of the use of words ( thus making everything you perceive automatically as abstract as words are ).

Blanchot's work is not a coherent, all-encompassing ' theory ', since it is a work founded on paradox and impossibility.

Blanchot's later work in particular is influenced by Levinasian ethics and the question of responsibility to the Other.

See also Maurice Blanchot's book The Unavowable Community ( 1983 ) which is an answer to Jean-Luc Nancy's Inoperative Community.

* Maurice Blanchot at 100 by Pierre Joris, one of Blanchot's English translators ( he translated " The Unavowable Community ")

Little was known until recently about much of Blanchot's life, and he long remained one of the most mysterious figures of contemporary literature.

Many of Blanchot's principal translators into English established reputations as prose stylists and poets in their own right ; some of the more well-known include Lydia Davis, Paul Auster, and Pierre Joris.

In his later work, Agamben intervenes in the theoretical debates following the publication of Nancy's essay La communauté désoeuvrée ( 1983 ), and Maurice Blanchot's response, La communauté inavouable ( 1983 ).

While fictional, it is generally faithful to the spirit and flavor of the best-known variations of the original story.

One of the best-known of these works is Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith, in which the historic Abraham Lincoln has a fictional secret identity as a hunter of evil vampires.

The following year, Kander and Ebb worked with Minnelli and Martin Scorsese twice: first, in the film New York, New York, which had them write what is perhaps their best-known song, the title track ; and, again in The Act, a musical about a fictional nightclub act.

Among the best-known of these are the phaser used in the Star Trek television series, films and novels and the lightsaber featured in the Star Wars fictional universe.

The best-known constructed scripts dedicated to fictional languages are J. R. R. Tolkien's elaborate Tengwar and Cirth, but many others exist, such as the Klingon script, Aurebesh from the Star Wars films, and D ' ni from the Myst series of video games.

Katherine Marie Helmond ( born July 5, 1929, Galveston, Texas ) is an American film, theater and television actress, who portrayed Emily Dickinson on Meeting of Minds, as well as fictional characters, for which she is best-known, such as Jessica Tate on Soap, Mona Robinson on Who's the Boss ?, Doris Sherman on Coach, and Lois Whelan on Everybody Loves Raymond, as well as " Jacqueline " in The Lorax and Mrs. Lowry in Brazil.

Joseph Sullivan, the model for Inspector Lew Erskine, the fictional character played by Efrem Zimbalist Jr. in the 1965-1974 ABC TV series The FBI, was perhaps the best-known of the Bureau's Major Case Inspectors.

Carter's best-known fictional works are The Rebel Outlaw: Josey Wales ( republished in 1975 under the title Gone to Texas ) and The Education of Little Tree ( 1976 ), originally published as a memoir.

Hilda Alice Ogden ( née Crabtree ) is a fictional character from the television series Coronation Street, one of the best-known of all the regular characters in the soap opera, whose name became synonymous with a certain type of working-class woman.

The Bronx has also become home to a peculiar poetic tribute, in the form of the Heinrich Heine Memorial, better known as the Lorelei Fountain from one of Heine's best-known works ( 1838 ).

Completed in 1824, the symphony is one of the best-known works of the Western classical repertoire.

One of Kafka's best-known works, it tells the story of a man arrested and prosecuted by a remote, inaccessible authority, with the nature of his crime revealed to neither him nor the reader.

His best-known works include Short Ride in a Fast Machine ( 1986 ), On the Transmigration of Souls ( 2002 ), a choral piece commemorating the victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks ( for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2003 ), and Shaker Loops ( 1978 ), a minimalist four-movement work for strings.

Two of his best-known works, the Pietà and David, were sculpted before he turned thirty.

Following his commercial breakthrough with Alien ( 1979 ), his best-known works are sci-fi classic Blade Runner ( 1982 ), Thelma & Louise ( 1991 ), best picture Oscar-winner Gladiator ( 2000 ), Black Hawk Down ( 2001 ), Matchstick Men ( 2003 ), Kingdom of Heaven ( 2005 ), American Gangster ( 2007 ), Robin Hood ( 2010 ), and Prometheus ( 2012 ).

Among English-language readers, his best-known work is the Duino Elegies ; his two most famous prose works are the Letters to a Young Poet and the semi-autobiographical Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge.

Joshi argues that King's best-known works ( his supernatural novels ), are his worst, describing them as mostly bloated, illogical, maudlin and prone to deus ex machina endings.

His best-known works include the March from The Love for Three Oranges, the suite Lieutenant Kijé, the ballet Romeo and Juliet – from which " Dance of the Knights " is taken – and Peter and the Wolf.

Today, this is one of Prokofiev's best-known works, and it contains some of the most inspired and poignant passages in his body of work.

His best-known works, still widely read today, are: The seductive vampire Carmilla attacks the sleeping Bertha Rheinfeldt.

Described by Frank Rich of the New York Times as " now the greatest and perhaps best-known artist in the American musical theater ", his most famous works include ( as composer / lyricist ) A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park with George and Into the Woods.

He did not begin painting until his late twenties, completing many of his best-known works during the last two years of his life.

His best-known works include The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems ( 1858 ), The Earthly Paradise ( 1868 – 1870 ), A Dream of John Ball ( 1888 ), the utopian News from Nowhere ( 1890 ), and the fantasy romance The Well at the World's End ( 1896 ).

His best-known works are the operas L ' elisir d ' amore ( 1832 ), Lucia di Lammermoor ( 1835 ), and Don Pasquale ( 1843 ), all in Italian, and the French operas La favorite and La fille du régiment ( both from 1840 ).

Among the best-known of Rockwell's works are the Willie Gillis series, Rosie the Riveter, Saying Grace ( 1951 ), The Problem We All Live With, and the Four Freedoms series.

Langham has used it for several subsequent productions, most recently in an adaptation by Stanley Silverman which expands the score with some of Ellington's best-known works.

His best-known works include Ripostes ( 1912 ), Hugh Selwyn Mauberley ( 1920 ), and his unfinished 120-section epic, The Cantos ( 1917 – 1969 ).

The film, one of Visconti's best-known works, concerns a German industrialist's family which slowly begins to disintegrate during the Nazi consolidation of power at the 30s.

Hector Berlioz, too, wrote the libretti for two of his best-known works, La Damnation de Faust and Les Troyens.

* Desert View Watchtower, one of Mary Colter's best-known works, was built in 1932.

One of the best-known works that makes use of the celesta is Tchaikovsky's " Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy " from The Nutcracker.

Gehry's best-known works include the titanium-covered Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain ; MIT Ray and Maria Stata Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts ; Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles ; Experience Music Project in Seattle ; Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis ; Dancing House in Prague ; the Vitra Design Museum and MARTa Museum in Germany ; the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto ; the Cinémathèque française in Paris ; and 8 Spruce Street in New York City.

His best-known paintings include early seascapes such as " Manawydan's Glass Door " and later works on legendary subjects, such as Trystan ac Esyllt ( Tristan and Iseult ).

The several dozen nudes Modigliani painted between 1916 and 1919 constitute many of his best-known works.