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Maurice BLANCHOT (Honoré de BALZAC)

Le travail de Balzac. Manuscrit autographe, tapuscrit complets et un feuillet autographe de notes

S.n. [Journal des débats], s.l. [Paris] s.d. (1944), 13,5x21,5cm & 2 pages in-4, 2 1/2 pages in-8.

Autograph manuscript of the author of 2 ½ pages 4to published in the issue dated 23 March 1944 of the Journal of Debates.
Complete manuscript writing very dense, with many erasures, corrections and additions.
Full typescript and autograph sheet working papers are joined Maurice Blanchot.
In this literary column published on the occasion of the publication of The Life of Balzac by André Billy, Blanchot abandons soon biographer to describe the work of incessant rewriting Balzac. He analyzes Balzac's work through the prism of the struggle between the idea and matter, "the idea that will make sense of all his work (...) is the destructive power of thought. (...) The creation of the novelist (...) is threatened by the power that entails. Its main purpose of his enemy; it is infinitely wary sense that it gives. "
There is no doubt that behind this relevant study of the work of Balzac, the author of Last word hints at his own aesthetic approach.

Between April 1941 and August 1944, Maurice Blanchot published in the "Chronicle of intellectual life" of the Journal of Debates 173 articles on new books.
In a half-page newspaper (about seven pages in-8), the young author of "Thomas the obscure" his first steps in the field of literary criticism and inaugurates a theoretical work that he would later develop Many in these essays, "La Part du feu" to "The Infinite Conversation" and "The Scripture of the disaster."
From the very first articles, Blanchot demonstrated analytical acuity far beyond current literature that motivates writing. Oscillating between classic and modern, first-class writers and minor novelists, he puts in his columns, the foundations of critical thinking that will mark the second half of the twentieth.
Transformed by writing and by war, Blanchot breaks, over a thought exerted "on behalf of the other," the violent maurassiennes certainties of his youth.
Not without paradox, then it transforms literary criticism philosophical act of intellectual resistance to barbarism at the heart of an "openly marechalist" newspaper: "Burning a book, write, are two acts from which culture entered its oscillations opposites "(The Book, In Journal of Debates, January 20, 1943).
In 2007, Cahiers NRF together under the direction of Christopher Bident all literary chronicles not yet published in volume with the proper analysis of the critical work of Blanchot "novels, poems, essays give rise to a singular reflection, always safer of his own rhetoric, delivered more to the echo of the impossible or the lure of the disappearance. (...) Not without contradictions or step aside, and the certainty of a feverish work begins (... ) these articles reveal the genealogy of a critic who has transformed during the chronicle necessity of thought. " (C. Bident).
The autograph manuscripts of Maurice Blanchot are of great rarity. --- Please note that the translation in english is done automatically, we apologize if the formulas are inaccurate. Contact us for any information!

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