Subject: Re: MB: a beginning
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 1995 15:14:29 -0800 (PST)


Thank goodness this is a listserve so I get copied on my own messages. I 
don't remember saying I found Blanchot disturbing. I really don't think 
such a comment rings true. Neither have I had the occasion to think of 
Blanchot while reading novels. When a writer like Garcia-Marquez gets 
going, he or she summons a mutlitude of voices. With regard to this 
plentitude, whether it works its way into a functional or disfunctional 
carnival, Blanchot has very little to say. Sure I suppose we could find 
other-worldliness and dying, obliquity of two, etc but that's merely the 
mythical function. 

What is it that I find specific to Blanchot? It is his way of writing 
about poets (Rilke, Kafka, Hollderlin,Van Gogh) who fall away into their 
travails and resurface to write 
epsitles. That is, the danger of falling out of human experience 
into a personal language is a regeneraive one each time we get a letter from
there.
Deb Wofle