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Maurice BLANCHOT

Le baron d'Holbach. Manuscrit autographe et tapuscrit complets

S.n. [Journal des débats], s.l. [Paris] s.d. (1943), 13,5x21,5cm & 4 pages in-4, 4 1/2 pages in-8.

Autograph manuscript of the author of four and a half pages 4to published in the issue dated 27-28 November 1943 in the Journal of Debates.
Complete manuscript writing very dense, with many erasures, corrections and additions.
Chronic literary published on the occasion of the publication of Paul Thiry d'Holbach and scientific philosophy in the eighteenth century by Pierre Naville.
Typescript is complete seal.
Much more than a book review of Pierre Naville on the Baron d'Holbach, this long article Blanchot is a real philosophical pamphlet against materialist thought Encyclopédistes accused of wanting to "know the world to take it. This is a significant expression of the bourgeois mind. (...) Man can rule the world if the world is a collection of objects. "
But through this scathing critique of the thought of the eighteenth century, Blanchot refers to a more modern evil: "Making something that man can study (...) it is sure that we can use him as one thing and use it as a thing. All social contradictions of liberalism are already in that statement. And the starting point is the Encyclopedia. "

Between April 1941 and August 1944, Maurice Blanchot published in the "Chronicle of intellectual life" of the Journal of Debates 173 articles on new books.
In a half-page newspaper (about seven pages in-8), the young author of "Thomas the obscure" his first steps in the field of literary criticism and inaugurates a theoretical work that he would later develop Many in these essays, "La Part du feu" to "The Infinite Conversation" and "The Scripture of the disaster."
From the very first articles, Blanchot demonstrated analytical acuity far beyond current literature that motivates writing. Oscillating between classic and modern, first-class writers and minor novelists, he puts in his columns, the foundations of critical thinking that will mark the second half of the twentieth.
Transformed by writing and by war, Blanchot breaks, over a thought exerted "on behalf of the other," the violent maurassiennes certainties of his youth.
Not without paradox, then it transforms literary criticism philosophical act of intellectual resistance to barbarism at the heart of an "openly marechalist" newspaper: "Burning a book, write, are two acts from which culture entered its oscillations opposites "(The Book, In Journal of Debates, January 20, 1943).
In 2007, Cahiers NRF together under the direction of Christopher Bident all literary chronicles not yet published in volume with the proper analysis of the critical work of Blanchot "novels, poems, essays give rise to a singular reflection, always safer of his own rhetoric, delivered more to the echo of the impossible or the lure of the disappearance. (...) Not without contradictions or step aside, and the certainty of a feverish work begins (... ) these articles reveal the genealogy of a critic who has transformed during the chronicle necessity of thought. " (C. Bident).
The autograph manuscripts of Maurice Blanchot are of great rarity. --- Please note that the translation in english is done automatically, we apologize if the formulas are inaccurate. Contact us for any information!

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