From: "L J HILL" <frrak-AT-snow.csv.warwick.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 11:21:23 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Re: MB: Help


Date:          Wed, 19 Nov 1997 10:00:40 +0000
From:          Simona Fina <vesna-AT-inopera.it>
Organization:  VESNA TRADUZIONI
To:            blanchot-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU
Subject:       MB: Help
Reply-to:      blanchot-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU

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)

=CA=CA=CA=CA=CA 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 Mallarm=8E, have long been
recognized as influential. His =CFuvre 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 (little=8A) knowledge I have. 

Thank you


Simona Fina

As many of you will know, the book on Blanchot edited by Carolyn
Gill, with an introduction by myself, contains the fruits of the
1993 London conference on Blanchot and includes the letter from
Blanchot written to Roger Laporte for that conference.  The book is
published by Routledge in London, and is priced at around sterling 
14.00, so it should be affordable by most people or libraries.  If 
Simona really can't locate a copy, let me know and I'll forward a 
photocopy of the Blanchot letter.  But the book is well worth buying 
anyway!

Best wishes

Leslie Hill


Leslie Hill
Department of French Studies
University of Warwick
Coventry CV4 7AL
tel: 01203 523014
fax: 01203 524679
e-mail: l.j.hill-AT-warwick.ac.uk