From: sk5-AT-duke.edu
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2001 15:19:21 -0400
Subject: MB: Blanchot on the gift


Dear all,
I am sorry for bothering - especially, since I am not (as yet) subscribed 
to the list. I am a graduate student at Duke, preparing to teach a class on 
gifts and gift giving: and even if I may not do much Blanchot in the class 
(it seems that to work to his writings, as well as, say, Heideggers, the 
seminar would have to take about a year and half if not a lifetime) I have 
found the following quote, and I was wondering what can be done with the 
text it comes from.
But I do not know which text is it - the place I found it did not cite - 
and after having asked all around, I have - desparing - resolved to try 
here. Could anyone, perhaps, let me know which Blachot's writing (and 
where) does the following quote? "Maurice Blanchot wrote: 'There would be 
no gift at all, if not the gift one does not have.' This is an empty-handed 
victory: that the writer also - and above all - shares and gives away the 
love and knowledge that he
does not himself possess in life." (Only the beginning is, of course, 
Blanchot.)

Many, many thanks.
Simon Krysl

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Simon Krysl
Graduate Program in Literature, Duke University
312 N Buchanan Blvd., #203
Durham, NC 27701-1747
(919) 680-3144