Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 14:41:18 -0400
Subject: Re: MB: Literature and the Right to Death




>I agree.  Blanchot has a sobriety which sounds very different from what

  we`ve been receiving through the list lately.   Blanchot`s stylistic
"trademmark" is the clarifying enigma, the oxymoron.   His writings are
    articulated with clarity, though they speak of the unspeakable.
   Blanchot`s use of oxymoron postpones the act of interpretation, and
                                creates
thereby a meanwhile between encounter and reading where we can touch the

            texts and look into them without grasping them.

     Pointing out these stylistic features is, however, not of high
                               importance
to me.  The question is rather: In what way are our reading  of Blanchot

   governed, or even predestinated, by them?  And:  Can we break this
predestination?   Can we transcribe Blanchot another forms of language?
        Can we read Blanchot without pretending to be Blanchot?

                             yours gazeing,

          I appreciated your astute comments very much indeed!

 and: by the way Halvor: I am going to have a page dedicated to Blanchot
   in my new site, would you, possibly, be interested in contributing
               something you've written on him/his work?
                 A biography, theory, what/have/you ...




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