Date: Mon, 21 Aug 1995 10:19:37 -0600
Subject: Re: MB: Bataille-Blanchot


In your last message, you wrote:
>
>I think L'arret de mort has striking similarities to Le Bleu du ciel, but I
>also think that the most misleading way of reading Blanchot is to think that
>his ideas are implicit in or elaborations of Bataille.  Much as I love
>Bataille,he doesn't hold a candle to Blanchot, who is far more aptly compared
>to Kafka
>and Proust.

I wonder why you feel so strongly about Blanchot's "superiority" to
Bataille. Personally, I think that in many of his conceptual elaborations
M.B. is much closer to Bataille than, say, to Proust.  First of all, they
share their reading of Hegel, Heidegger and phenomenology in general, even
though they don't elaborate it in the same exact way. 

I can't write any longer right now, but I'd like to continue the discussion.

 

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