Date: Wed, 26 Jul 1995 10:33:13 GMT-1000
Subject: re: MB: The experience of writing?



I was not expecting such a vigorous response to my tacked on 
question but nonetheless I am finding these responses most 
interesting.  The only point I wish to take up is that of the 
phenomenological experience of writing.  (I did not intend to suggest 
that Blanchot is just a deconstructive reader, or a deconstructionist 
at all - and certainly agree that Derrida is a student of Blanchot in 
many key areas.  Sometimes, perhaps, it appears that Derrida has not 
just read Blanchot but has digested, or consumed his thought?)

On the experience of writing then.  Inasmuch as Blanchot's writings 
may be viewed as a sustained interrogation of the possibility and 
impossibility of experience, and hence suspends any certainty about 
the nature of subjectivity, does it not also offer a critique of the 
notion that in language (and particularly poetic language or writing 
in general) we find a priviledged mode of access to being?  Is it 
then permissable to argue that Blanchot's novels and recits are 
organised around the "writing event" as a double task?  A task which 
on the one hand seeks to construct a subject, an origin, or what you 
will and a task which exposes that fragile subject to its own 
impossibility?  I am just trying to see how this idea on Blanchot 
flies so please respond.  Yours, Andrew.========================================================AGJOH2-AT-MFS03.cc.monash.edu.au