Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 09:57:55 -0500
From: Reg Lilly <rlilly-AT-scott.skidmore.edu>
Subject: Re: MB: Help


Simona,
	Leslie Hill, who is a member of this list, translated that essay, and I
hesitate (for copyright reasons) to transmit over the list either the original
or translation -- perhaps Leslie would indulge you with his materials.  I can
say that the letter is quite brief and concerns Blanchot's relation (or lack
thereof) to Maurras.

Regards,
Reg

Simona Fina wrote:
> 
> 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