From: "tsuquiashi-daddesio, eva" <eva.tsuquiashi-daddesio-AT-sru.edu>
Subject: MB: Blanchot. Literature-Philosophy
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 1997 11:28:12 -0500


Hello everyone:
        I'm a new arrival to the list. I just saw B. de Giusti and P. de
Payo's messages about the theme of Literature and Philosophy in Blanchot.
I'm particularly interested in what can be considered his "fiction". From
more or less La Folie du jour up to Le Tres-Haut. I have worked for a number
of years on Thomas l'Obscur (the 1950 version) and le Tres-Haut in
particular. I am interested in precisely how is it that literature itself
becomes for Blanchot a way to read and write The Book, books, all books in a
path to a vanishing point where there are no delimiting borders (at least as
we might have understood them) between literature and Philosophy. I have
been trained in Literature mainly so, I love to read, and to a certain
extent, just read Blanchot even, and may be specially when I write about his
work. However, what is considered philosophical thought permeates his
"literary" texts to an extent that it seems that he has become more
interesting for people specializing in Philosophy than in Literature.
However, those early "fictions" hold, I think good insights into his later
writings. I'm currently reading the "weaving"? of Stendhal and Manzoni's
writings in Le Tres-Haut.
       I would welcome information and exchanges about this type of reading.
Hoping to hear from someone. Thank you for reading.

Eva Tsuquiashi-Daddesio