Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 14:17:00 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: MB: Blanchot and Heidegger



I'm not sure what an ontology of lit would be. but in the simplest terms I'd
say that Blanchot would call lit autrement que etre ou ay-dela de l'essence,
or whatever Levinas's title was.  Hence he praises Kafka for not seeing lit
as another world but as other to all worlds.  This seems relevant to the
Heidegger/Blanchot discussion as well.  A propos that discussion, and Levinas,
it was L who first remarked that the hero of Le Tres-haut, Henri Sorge, was
(at the start) a Heideggerean figure (Sorge=care=our relation to Being in Sein
& Zeit)--but of course he goes beyond his initial totalitarian raptures under
the pressure of among others the figure of literary exigence himself, Bouxx (as Levinas points out) books, who keeps making him write.


William Flesch