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Maurice
Blanchot (1907
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 Friendship
(Meridian
- Crossing Aesthetics)
by Maurice
Blanchot, Elizabeth Rottenberg (Translator)
For the past half century, Maurice Blanchot has been
an extraordinarily influential figure on the French literary and
cultural scene. He is arguably the key figure after Sartre in exploring
the relation between literature and philosophy. This collection of 29
critical essays and reviews on art, politics, literature, and philosophy
documents the wide range of Blanchot's interests, from the enigmatic
paintings in the Lascaux caves to the atomic era.
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Primary and secondary bibliographical information in
over a dozen languages. Over 2,000 entries.
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The Blanchot Discussion List is part of the Spoon
Collective hosted by the University of Virginia.
BLANCHOT is an electronic forum for discussion
and experimentation pertaining to the writings of Maurice Blanchot and
his intersections with Derrida, Heidegger, Foucault, Levinas, Bataille,
Deleuze, Nietzsche, Klossowski, etc. BLANCHOT is an open list - all
interested parties are invited and encouraged to participate.
Posts on all aspects of Blanchot will be welcomed. The
list is open to general discussion, group readings of published works,
the sharing and critique of participants' works-in-progress, and
creative appropriations of the texts across a variety of disciplines.
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Master of Arts in Poetics Thesis by Kevin S.
Fitzgerald, New College of California
This thesis performs a close read of Maurice
Blanchot's novel Thomas the Obscure (1950). However, its
experimental style and ambiguity make it difficult to interpret this
novel without recourse to Blanchot's literary theory, which, although
also somewhat ambiguous, tends, by comparison, to address its subject
matter more directly. Despite its ambiguity, though, it is relatively
apparent that a significant amount of Thomas the Obscure
illustrates Blanchot's theory about the impossibility of death. This
theme is likewise addressed in his essay "Literature and the Right
to Death" and his work The Space of Literature. In light of
this convergence, Fitzgerald has chosen these two theoretical works as
keys, whereby he unlocks a series of possible meanings from Thomas
the Obscure.
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This strange, exceptional and psychedelic site explores
the relationship between Beckett's work and Blanchot.
Excerpt:
...we have, first, two great distinctions which
correspond to the dialectic and the nondialectic demands of speech: the
pause that permits the exchange; the waiting that measures an infinite
distance. but this waiting assures not only the beautiful hiatus that
prepares the poetic act, but also and at the same time, other forms of
cessation, very deep, very perverse, more and more perverse, and always
such that the distinctions one can make between them do not avoid but
solicit ambiguity. we have 'distinguished' three: one where the void
becomes achievement; another where the void is tiredness, misery; and
another ultimate, hyperbolic one where idleness shows {and perhaps
thought}. to interrupt yourself in order to hear yourself. to hear
yourself in order to speak. finally, to speak only in order to interrupt
yourself and make possible this impossible interruption...
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Excerpt:
Si l'empathie suffit avec bon nombre d'écrivain pour
essayer d'approcher qui ils sont, ce qu'ils ont voulu dire et comment
ils l'ont dit, Maurice Blanchot résiste à cette tentative.
Né en 1907 à Quain en Saône et Loire, il n'est ni
un écrivain engagé au sens traditionnel du terme, n'a jamais été
surréaliste, ni dadaïste, ni existentialiste, ne s'est jamais proclamé
chef de file ou partie prenante d'un quelconque courant littéraire ou
intellectuel, n'a été ni collaborateur, ni résistant.... S'il est
intervenu dans la vie publique, par la publication d'articles (à droite
entre les années 30 et 40, puis à gauche de 1958 à 1968), il surprend,
dans un siècle où les intellectuels ont acquis une part de leur notoriété
par des déclarations, démentis, et autres gesticulations verbales, par
son silence; condition nécessaire, pour lui, à toute création.
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Biographical note on French novelist and critic
Maurice Blanchot, listing of works in translation and excerpts.
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