Date: Wed, 15 Feb 1995 6:28:04 GMT+1000
Subject: MB: Images of Blanchot


I know of two images of Maurice Blanchot. The first is taken with 
him, Levinas and two young women lounging on a car: Blanchot (who 
seems rather dandyish and haughty) would be in his early twenties, 
I'd say. This photograph first appeared in a volume on Levinas but 
it was reproduced next to a review of the biography of Levinas in a 
recent number of "Magazine litteraire". The second image shows 
Blanchot in his seventies, wearing black, stooped, walking through a 
supermarket parking lot (the one near his apartment, I think). The 
photograph was taken and published without Blanchot's approval, 
thereby gaining the sigh of Roger Laporte: 'Triste epoque!'. The 
photograph appeared in "Lire" about eight years ago. I have both 
journals at home and can give precise details if anyone is 
interested. 

Kevin Hart,
Monash University