Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 15:58:18 -0500
From: Reg Lilly <rlilly-AT-skidmore.edu>
Subject: Re: MB: Holderlin quote




william flesch wrote:
> Um, I may be misremembering, but isn't MF tel que je l'imagine after MF's
> death?

	Yes, you are quite right.  It's from 1986 and Foucault died in 1984.  It would be interesting to discuss this little
'exchange' that evidently was no exchange.

>  Blanchot does talk about MF in L'entretien infini.  And Jeffrey
> Mehlman says that he's discovered (but how?) that MF is the author of the
> anonymous entry on Blanchot in the French Dictionary of National Biography
> (called what?  I don't know) written circa 1964 which according to
> Mehlman's quotations of it has some very apposite things to say about
> L'arret de mort and I believe about Le tres-haut as well.
> 
> I've heard some interesting stories about the quasi-personal relation
> between Foucault and Blanchot, but the stories come from other people on
> this list, and I'd be hesitant to pass them on second-hand.
> 

	I would be interested in hearing of these things if a teller can be found.

Regards,
Reg