From: "Simon Krysl" <sk5-AT-duke.edu> Subject: MB: Blanchot on the gift Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2001 14:42:36 -0500 Dear Blanchot specialists - Would anyone, perhaps, be able (and willing) to tell me where, in Blanchot's writings, does the following quote come from? I have found it on the internet, and once, already, bothered your list with pretty much the same question. (Then, I was directed to several people who might know: but I wasn't able to discover an answer.) Now, I am vaguely aware that in the discourse of the gift and gift- giving, besides the more (and most) obvious personnages - from Derrida to Mauss - Blanchot's name can and should come up. I know very little of his work, however: and if I am able to place the phrase - enticing as it is - in a context, I may - or so I think - have a possible starting point for reading Blanchot with this perspective. "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.) Is there, perhaps, someone able to help? So many thanks Simon Krysl Graduate Program in Literature Duke University email: sk5-AT-duke.edu
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