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Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 23:35:44 -0400 (EDT)
From: William Flesch <flesch-AT-brandeis.edu>
Subject: Re: MB: Re: space


Avoid the Siren's Song.  THe translation is execrable. and consistently
wrong.  I'll second Libertson and Shaviro and add Tom Wall's Radical
Passivity.  --William Flesch

On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, [iso-8859-1] Popovics Zoltán wrote:

> 
> Hi, 
> 
> First of all I'm sure that the best secondary literature for Blanchot is Blanchot himself (for example The Infinite Conversation [L'entretien infini] for the L'espace littéraire) and of course Lévinas and Foucault:
> 
> Blanchot, Maurice - Foucault, Michel, Foucault - Blanchot (Foucault, The Thought from Outside; Blanchot, Michel Foucault as I imagine), New York, Zone Books, 1987
> 
> My favourite book on Blanchot is:
> Libertson, Joseph, Proximity, Levinas, Blanchot, Bataille and communication, The Hague, Boston and London, Martinus Nijhoff, 1982
> 
> And on the second place:
> Gregg, John, Maurice Blanchot and the literature of transgression, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1994
> 
> The third might be:
> Shaviro, Steven, Passion and Excess: Blanchot, Bataille, and literary theory, Tallahassee, Florida State University Press, 1990. 
> 
> And the application of Blanchot on different writers:
> Blanchot, Le livre ŕ venir, Paris, Gallimard, 1959
> that is only partially translated in:
> Blanhot, The sirens' song: selected essays, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1982
> Blanchot, The gaze of Orpheus, and other literary essays, Barrytown, Station Hill Press, 1981
> 
> And you must know that Blanchot is a kind of hidden source of Barthes's and Derrida's theory on literature.
> 
> 
> Zoltan Popovics
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: Elzbieta Grodek 
>   To: blanchot-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu 
>   Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 3:23 AM
>   Subject: MB: space
> 
> 
>   Dear list users,
> 
>   I am a graduate student at the University of Toronto. I am looking for different interpretations of Blanchot's 'l'espace litteraire' and examples of literary criticism applying this concept to study different writers. Would anybody have any suggestions as to articles and books to consult ?
> 
>   Thank you,
>   E. Grodek
> 


   

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