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Maurice BLANCHOT

Thomas l'obscur

Gallimard, Paris 1941, 14,5x21cm, broché.

Original issue for which it was not derived great papers, one of the copies of the Press. Very valuable and exciting autograph dedication signed by the author to his mother and his sister: "Voices said, the universe is in the night / G. de Nerval / To my dear mother, my old Marg with /.. all my love. " 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. As for the passion of Blanchot for his mother, it was the turn of his work that we discover the finest examples: "Maybe the power of the mother figure she borrows its radiance to the same power fascination, and one might 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, revealing a hitherto unknown intimacy. Citing Nerval, cryptic in other times, makes a terrible year in succession that Levinas is screeching halt and Paul Levy fleeing persecution, a deep symbolic value. Blanchot also resumed on the copy of Xavier Lignac and C. Bident sees a direct reference to the political break Blanchot and the loss of his faith. The strong young Blanchot its extremist beliefs died, he is reborn in the night, guided by "voices" that say nothing obvious. Tiny marginal spots on covers, spine slightly irradiated, nice copy.

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