Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 18:01:54 +0100
Subject: Re: MB: new member


Janet

Agreed - Beyond anything else Blanchot has written he has writtne some of the
most extraordinary fictions of the 20th C. Nothing obscure about them at all!

My personal favorite is 'The Last Man' - wonderful...

sdv

Keith Bresnahan wrote:

> Janet,
>
> I'm afraid we've (I've) scared you off Blanchot with our overly-cautious
> suggestions, which on second reading seem to me more like warnings, at least
> for someone coming to Blanchot for the first time; the intellectual circle
> around the reading of Blanchot may be deep, but it has (as does Blanchot's
> work) many levels, and moments of both clarity and obscurity.
>
> I think empitsu's reference to Joyce's late work is an apt one; coming to
> Ulysses or Finnegan's Wake for the first time is a world apart from
> understanding the multiplicity of references in Joyce's writing. This first,
> and necessarily more shallow, reading is crucial if you're to continue
> reading.
>
> I'm afraid the occasionally obscure tone of our discussions on this list
> might frustrate, rather than aid, your initial reading of Blanchot's work.
> You might choose to read Blanchot (which I hope you do), and not participate
>   in these discussions, though I've found them helpful as I continue to
> struggle with these texts. Blanchot's work maintains a tenuous balance
> between (as Simon Critchley has noted) the extreme clarity and simplicity of
> its language, and the obscurity or complexity of its meaning. It's
> difficult, to be sure, but I've also found it rewarding, and I don't know of
> another writer who has quite the same way with words.
>
> I hope to hear from you again on this list, and good luck.
> -Keith
>
> >From: Janetjet65-AT-aol.com
> >Reply-To: blanchot-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
> >To: blanchot-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
> >Subject: Re: MB: Blanchot/Celan
> >Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 00:34:50 EDT
> >
> >Thankyou for the input, but I feel that I have stumbled into an
> >intellectual
> >circle that is a bit too deep for me.
> >
> >Janetjet
>
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