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Maurice BLANCHOT

La bête de Lascaux

GLM, Paris 1958, 12x18,5cm, broché.

First edition of this study of René Char originally published in the French Nouvelle Revue in April 1953, one of 550 numbered copies on vellum, one draw with 48 Holland. Precious autograph dedication signed by the author to his sister Marguerite: "To my dear sister, from René Char, these pages he asked me to make a small book, in any condition." Marguerite Blanchot, renowned organist of the Cathedral of Chalon, remained all his life in the family home with his mother and aunt. "It will gradually become, for the family, as the memory of origins." Very close to Mauritius, she regularly corresponded with the writer who demonstrates her great recognition for his dedication to their helpless mother. If the intense affection Blanchot for his mother and sister shines in dedications of it, we know almost nothing about their relationship. In the only biographical essay on Blanchot, Christophe Bident reveals however: "Marguerite Maurice Blanchot worshiped his brother very proud of him, (...) it attached great importance to his political ideas (...) She read a lot (.... .) They phoned corresponded. Remotely, they shared the same natural authority, the same concern for discretion. " Blanchot address him indeed many books from his library, now with her continuous intellectual bond. Cultivating absolute discretion, Blanchot pushed the art of erasing into his handwritten dedications generally brief and almost always written on cards attached to the rare books he offered his close friends. In contrast, in these precious items to his mother and sister, Blanchot offers in all its fragility and, in the privacy of this correspondence on his work reveals a previously unknown personal look. A tiny spot in minor foot of the first flat. Nice copy of a moving source.

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