Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 10:00:40 +0000
From: Simona Fina <vesna-AT-inopera.it>
Subject: MB: Help


Hi Sam, Reg, Edward, William, Thomas, Eric!

I have been following your conversation since Nov. 7. 

I was wondering if anyone of you could help me find the following:


<<-------------------
Maurice Blanchot: The Demand of Writing
Ed. Carolyn Bailey Gill (1996)

ÊÊÊÊÊ Publisher's Blurb: "Maurice Blanchot is one of the key figures of
postwar European thought; he has radically transformed our understanding 
of
the relations between philosophy and literature. His strikingly original
fiction and his penetrating critical studies of other writers, such as
Kafka, Beckett and MallarmŽ, have long been recognized as influential. 
His
Ïuvre as a whole, with its connections to the thought of Hegel and
Heidegger, Derrida, Levinas, Bataille and Foucault, places him at the
forefront of contemporary debates on philosophical and literary culture.

This is the first collection of critical essays on the work of Blanchot 
in
English. It brings together some of the most original commentators on
Blanchot from the USA, Great Britain and France; it also includes a 
letter
from Blanchot, published here for the first time, in which he addresses 
the
contentious issue of his politics in the 1930s.

An ideal introduction to Blanchot's life, thought, politics and fiction,
this collection will make fascinating reading for students of 
philosophy,
literature and French studies.>>


I just need a copy of the letter (with bibliographical references) that 
Blanchot publishes in that book for the first time.

Five years ago I graduated in Naples and my dissertation was about his 
early political writings. Now the Italian Research Board gave me a two 
years scholarship, and I would like to go back to that work, although I 
realize lately the debate on that subject has been richer than it was 
five or six years ago. 

As that book is a collection, and as it would be uselessly long and 
expensive for me to get it right from the Publisher, I would pay for 
photocopies and shipping costs relating just to that letter.

Also, I commit myself to help anybody should need it with the material 
and (littleŠ) knowledge I have. 

Thank you


Simona Fina