Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 11:14:34 -0700
From: Christophe Wall-Romana <kitocwr-AT-uclink4.berkeley.edu>
Subject: Re: MB: inquiry: Blanchot/Bataille


Hi Lee Chi Leung-
Yr project is very intriguing; I'm not familiar with Mehlmann's 
auto-bio-graphy, but certainly Blanchot's _L'arret de mort_ and his 
other recits (i.e. _Au moment voulu_) would lend themselves to broad 
autofictive readings. Lacoue-Labarthe's _Typography_ (Stanford UP, 1998) 
could be useful in connection with Derrida's _Otobiography_ as it looks 
at Zarathustra, through Heidegger, as a mimetic figure/fiction of 
Nietzsche (Lacoue-Labarthe is also heavily influenced by Blanchot). In 
_L'ecriture du desastre_ Blanchot writes: "L'ecrivain, sa biographie: il 
mourut, vecut et mourut." (p. 61). On p.105 he also writes of 
autobiography as a perpetual suicide and gift...
Good luck-
Christophe Wall-Romana