From: "L J HILL" <frrak-AT-snow.csv.warwick.ac.uk>
Date: Sat, 9 May 1998 10:03:26 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Re: MB: tls review


Date:          Thu, 07 May 1998 14:52:21 -0400
From:          william flesch <flesch-AT-binah.cc.brandeis.edu>
Subject:       MB: tls review
To:            blanchot-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
Reply-to:      blanchot-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu

DId anyone see the TLS review (by Ian Pindar) of three books on MB,
Leslie Hill's included?  I was (mildly) distressed by it--it seemed to
praise MB for the wrong reasons, and was pointlessly homophobic, and
indeed sufficiently ignorant perhaps not to realize that MB's review
of Duras's La Maladie de la mort allows for possibilities of love
without restriction as to sexual orientation.

William Flesch

I saw it, and was moved to respond in the mildest way I could.  I 
couldn't make up my mind whether to protest at the homophobia or the 
offensive parallel between MB and Maurice Papon, or the simple fact 
that the review said nothing about any of the issues raised either in 
Gerald Bruns's book or my own!

Leslie Hill


Leslie Hill
Department of French Studies
University of Warwick
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