Date: Sat, 18 Nov 1995 13:08:06 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: MB: a beginning


I'm with Tom Wall and anyone else who does find Blanchot disturbing -- I think
that I've never been disturbed  by anything as much as by Blanchot.  And I
certainly think of Blanchot all the time when I read novels -- Proust for ex-
ample.  As to the multiplicity of voices, this is certainly a central Blanchot-
ian theme, in the fiction and in L'entretien infini.  The question is what 
counts as multiplicity, and do you get it in Marquez or in Joyce?  Or is
what you get there variation on the same voice only?   A real question.  But
you certainly do get it in Blanchot, and you also get its relation to death and unhappiness and attention.  For a specific treatment of many voices in Blanchot
see also his piece on Louis-Rene des Foret's Le Bavard, in L'amitie.  And also
L'attente l'oubli.

William Flesch