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Maurice BLANCHOT

L'arrêt de mort

Gallimard, Paris 1948, 10,5x16,5cm, relié.

First Edition, review copy service. Bound in half morocco fir, back with five nerves, when golden tail, flat marbled, endpapers and contreplats paper bowl, cover and spine preserved, gilded head, elegant binding signed P. Goy & C. Vilaine. Beautiful and valuable autograph signed by the author to his mother and his sister pasted on a map at the top of the first guard: "To you, my very dear, these books where" I "through a fictional world imaginary trying to capture a bit of truth. / With all my affection, my appreciation and loyalty. Mauritius. On 1 August 1948. " Marguerite Blanchot, renowned organist Chalon Cathedral, 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 Maurice, she regularly corresponded with the writer who reflects him great recognition for his dedication to their helpless mother. If intense affection Blanchot for his mother and his sister shines in dedications of it, we know almost nothing of their relations. 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. A distance, 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 link. As the passion of Blanchot for his mother, it is the turn of his work that we discover the finest examples: "Maybe the power of the mother figure she borrows its brightness to the same power fascination, and one could say that if the mother carries this fascinating attraction is as appearing when the child lives entirely under the gaze of fascination, it concentrates in itself all the powers of enchantment ". 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 reveals a hitherto unknown intimacy. Ex-dono Marguerite Blanchot top of the half-title page. Beautiful specimen of a well established moving from.

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