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Maurice BLANCHOT

Manuscrit et tapuscrit complet inédit constituant l'élaboration de Thomas l'Obscur à partir du tapuscrit de Thomas le Solitaire

s.d (1938), 13,5x21cm et 21x27cm, 454 feuillets dont 322 manuscrits.

BLANCHOT Maurice
Complete manuscript and typescript, being an early version of Thomas l'Obscur [Thomas the Obscure] 1938, 135 x 210 mm (5 5/16 x 8 1/4 ”) et 210 x 270 mm (8 1/4 x 10 5/8 ”), 454 leaves among which 322 manuscripts ones
An exceptional complete set, for a large part unpublished, of 454 manuscript and typescript leaves with copious corrections and deletions, being an early version of Thomas l'Obscur, which sheds light on the process of the composition of the work based on the mythic earlier typescript: Thomas le Solitaire [Thomas the Solitary].
The document is made up of two states: a manuscript of 275 leaves, and a collection of 179 leaves composed of 132 leaves of the typescript (entirely corrected) of Thomas le Solitaire, and 47 inserted manuscript leaves.
The 275-page manuscript finishes with a reference to the typescript-manuscript document, which itself has a double ending, for Thomas le Solitaire (typescript) and the end of Thomas l'Obscur (manuscript).
It would appear that the typescript-manuscript is a first step in the work leading up to the manuscript proper, but together with it forms an inseparable whole since the references from one to the other are constant. The pages of the manuscript in fact regularly contain cross-references to the typescript-manuscript and the sequence of pages is interrupted several times to include the numbering of the typescript-manuscript.
The manuscript version, as well as the typescript-manuscript version both show significant differences from the published version (which appeared in 1941). Some passages from the text of Thomas le Solitaire are still included in the manuscript and variances with the published novel are manifold.
This important document, therefore, marks a key moment in the work of the author, where the novel was still in full-blown development.
This unique set undoubtedly constitutes the most important source of information on the development of the novels of one of the most closed-off writers of the 20th century after Kafka. 
 

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