Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 09:57:54 -0400
Subject: Re: MB: blanchot on mallarme


Reply to message from V066UCW9-AT-ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu of Sun, 21 Apr
>
>I am working on the text on Mallarme in the d space of literature -
>specifically the subsection called the central point, of the larger
>subdivision called The expereince of Mallarme (p.46, in my folio]
>french edition).  It is hard to tell hopw much this rather intense
>discussion owes to Mallarme, and how much it is Blanchot.  I would like
>to look into this a little, but he makes it hard, for a ni novice
>such as I, by citing mallarme passages without giving any references.
>It seems to me at least possible that they may all come from one
>presumably theoretical text and I would be very grateful if anyone
>]can identify any of the citations.  I will tyo type in a few here
>in case there are any mallarmeans out there who can readily idenitify
>the source(s).
>rien ne demeurera sans etre profere
>lumineuse evidence
>une virtuelle trainee de feux
>tout devient suspense, disposition fragmentaire avec alternance et vis
>a vis
>des fetes a volonte a et solitaire
>moment de foudre
>l'instant qu'ils y brillent et meurent dans une fleur raopide sur
>quelque transparence comme d'ether
>these are of course fragmentary citations removed from theri
>citational context, and should not be expected to make sense
>as they stand here...
>
>mark hewson
>
I don't think there is any good way to do this except to take the
Pleaiade edition of the Oeucres completes and to skim through the
poetry and through the critical sections (Crise de vers, etc.)
                                        W. A. Strauss>