Date: Fri, 18 Aug 1995 11:13:55 -0600
Subject: Re: MB: Bataille-Blanchot


=46or the relationship betw. Bataille and Blanchot:

I myself am working on Blanchot, and I have explored the relationship betw.
him and Bataille.  Actually, I have gradually come to think that it is
Bataille who gave Blanchot a lot of his conceptual background, included the
notion of art as transgression (which Bataille was elaborating already in
the early thirties) and the notion of guilt.  For instance, I have been
thinking, lately, that L'arr=EAt de mort, published by Blanchot in 1949, must
somehow be _also_ a rewriting of Le coupable, published by Bataille in 1944
(something like this has also been said briefely by Derrida in _Survivre_,
his essay on L'arret de Mort). Personally, I doubt that Blanchot would have
had the conceptual readiness to elaborate his own theory of writing without
the exchange he had with Bataille since 1941. 

I would be happy to know what other people think about this issue.


Giuseppina Mecchia
gmecchia-AT-rikki.cc.colorado.edu