S. n.|s. l. s. d. [1945]|21 x 26.50 cm
Original manuscript and typescript of article to be published in Spain free, unique number of the News Review led by Georges Bataille and Blanchot, which contributed Camus, Cassou, Battle, Grenier, Garcia Lorca, Hemingway and Quero Morales.
Manuscript, complete with the exception of the last lines, with many erasures, corrections and underlining in ink.
Text marking the major policy reversal Maurice Blanchot who signs a committed text away from its anti-republican convictions prewar.
Co-director of the magazine founded by his friend Georges Bataille, Blanchot and his political fate of silence of the immediate post-war "j ['was] silently absent" he wrote about this in order to friendship .
Alongside contributions "violently democratic" Camus and Cassou, Hope, while retaining its structure literary criticism, publicly registered Blanchot in this new humanist political consciousness which could be found in his chronicles the beginnings of Debates Journal.
By devoting its study in this work from 1937, now a writer target of the purge commission CNE, Blanchot refuses the aegis of the new political forces and assumes its own mutation.
So its deeply empathetic gaze towards communism and anarchism nevertheless considers these ideologies in their earliest forms, before the disaster, and at a time when he himself was far from those acquaintances. While affirming the continuing need of revolutionary action, he points out the paradox of Communist thought which denies being realized and, conversely, of anarchism destroying themselves by refusing to compromise ("no army to end the military. (...) live like life should be lived, now or die ").
Parallel to the political approach of Camus, Blanchot was aware as early as 1945 Intellectual complexity of any form of political action, but it does not just this observation. Forced to face the world and destroys the world to build, it takes up the challenge of a clear commitment and confronts thought into action, action in conscience: "The party, war, struggle, all this is essential, but the man who, in the party, through war and struggle, looking, looking extremely self, it also is essential. "
Through a messianic reading of this major work, it redefines the concept of "hope", "hope now discovers the horizon on which it must be regarded as not to become a new prison. (...) It is the power to choose the destiny that is infinite: the possibility of choosing their conditions have the choice itself does not. (...) And hope to always have the same name, freedom. "
The manuscript, heavily crossed out and corrected, bears the mark of Blanchot's involvement in what would become one of its major intellectual and political battles announcing the Manifesto of the positions of 121 and the International Review of project.