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<p>Signed books and manuscripts by the author of <em>Thomas the</em> <em>Obscure</em>, <em>Death Sentence</em>, <em>The Space of Literature</em>, <em>The Infinite Conversation</em>...</p>

Signed books and manuscripts by Maurice Blanchot

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Maurice BLANCHOT
Sade ou le Royaume de l'Unique [Quelques remarques sur Sade] - Manuscrit autographe complet[Sade, or the Kingdom of the Unique [A Few Remarks on Sade] – Complete autograph manuscript]
S. n.|s. l. S.d (1946)|-|en feuilles
Complete autograph manuscript of 12 pages on 6 octavo leaves with a title difficult to decipher, perhaps: "Sade or the Kingdoms of the Unique" and which would appear under the title "Some Remarks on Sade" in Critique no. 3-4 of August-September 1946.
Manuscript with very dense writing, containing numerous deletions, corrections and additions.

"It is Sade's thought that pushes Blanchot's to its fulfillment, and it is also Blanchot's that fulfills that of Sade." (Georges Bataille)
Bataille's writing and friendship are undoubtedly not unrelated to the importance that Blanchot would attach throughout his life to this tutelary figure of his philosophical...
€2,300
Maurice BLANCHOT (Horace WALPOLE)
Le roman noir - Manuscrit autographe et tapuscrit complets[he Noir Novel – Complete Autograph Manuscript and Typescript]
S. n. • [ Journal des débats]|s. l. • (Paris) 1944|13.50 x 21 cm|2 pages 1/2 in-4
Autograph manuscript by the author, 2½ pages in-8, published in the issue of 30 March 1944 of the Journal des Débats.
Complete recto-verso manuscript in very dense handwriting, containing numerous deletions, corrections and additions. This is a review published on the occasion of the reissue of Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto with a preface by Paul Eluard. Accompanied by the complete typescript.
The reissue by Éditions José Corti of Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto with a preface by Paul Eluard offered Maurice Blanchot the opportunity to set out his definition of the Gothic novel, which, thanks notably to the Surrealists, was then enjoying a...
€1,800
Maurice BLANCHOT (Noël DEVAULX)
Les malheurs de Peau d'Âne. Manuscrit autographe et tapuscrit complets[The Misfortunes of Donkey Skin. Complete autograph manuscript and typescript]
s. n. [Paysage dimanche]|n. l. [Paris] s. d. [1945]|11.50 x 22 cm|3 pages in-4
Autograph manuscript by the author, 3 pages in-8, published in issue 21 (4 November 1945) of Paysage Dimanche.
Complete manuscript written on both sides, in a very dense hand, with numerous deletions, corrections, and additions.
Together with the complete typescript, bearing 3 autograph corrections in black ink.
This text by Maurice Blanchot, « Les malheurs de "Peau d'âne" », contains two paradoxes. Contrary to what its title suggests, it does not deal with the work of Charles Perrault; furthermore, this column is devoted to the tales of an author whom the critic had already cited in his article on the fantastic novel published the previous year in the Journal des...
€1,200
Maurice BLANCHOT
Romans fantastiques. Manuscrit autographe et tapuscrit complets[Fantastic Novels. Complete autograph manuscript and typescript]
[Journal des débats]|s. l. • [Paris] s. d. [1944]|13.50 x 21.50 cm|2 1/2 pages in-8
Autograph manuscript by the author, two and a half pages, octavo, published in the issue of May 4, 1944 of the Journal des Débats.
Complete recto-verso manuscript, densely written, with numerous deletions, corrections, and additions.
Together with the complete typescript.
A column published on the occasion of the release of Robert Poulet’s Prélude à l'apocalypse.

In this column devoted to the contemporary state of the fantastic novel, Maurice Blanchot focuses in particular on Robert Poulet’s Prélude à l'apocalypse which had just been published: « Le lecteur passe volontiers du réel au fantastique, mais qu'y gagne-t-il ? Les...
€1,200
Maurice BLANCHOT (Alfred JARRY)
Un roman de Jarry. - Manuscrit autographe et tapuscrit signé complets[A Novel by Jarry – Complete Autograph Manuscript and Signed Typescript]
S. n. • [ Journal des débats]|s. l. • [Paris] s. d. [1944]|13.50 x 21.50 cm|2 1/2 pages in-8
Autograph manuscript by the author, two and a half pages in octavo, published in the issue of April 13, 1944 of the Journal des Débats.
Complete recto-verso manuscript, in a very dense hand, with numerous deletions, corrections, and additions.
Accompanied by the complete signed typescript.
A review published on the occasion of the posthumous release of Jarry’s novel, La Dragonne.

In this review devoted to Alfred Jarry and Père Ubu, Maurice Blanchot examines the confusion between the two and its consequences: « [...] on peut penser que Jarry, en s'entêtant à être le Père Ubu, a pendant sa vie gaspillé une partie de ses...
€3,000
Maurice BLANCHOT (Ernest HEMINGWAY)
Manuscrit autographe sur Hemingway intitulé [traduit de ...]Autograph manuscript on Hemingway
1946|13.50 x 21 cm|en feuilles

(HEMINGWAY) BLANCHOT Maurice. Autograph manuscript on Hemingway
1946, 16 pages 1/2 in-8 (13,5 x 21 cm), loose leaves
Author's autograph manuscript, 16 and a half 8vo pages, published in number 17 of L'Arche (July 1946) and reprinted, with slight modifications, in La Part du Feu (1949).
Complete manuscript, written recto-verso, very densely spaced, with numerous deletions, corrections, and additions.
In order to examine the problems related to the translation of a literary text into another language, Maurice Blanchot looks at the contemporary American novel and its perception in Europe.
“Many good...
€2,800
Maurice BLANCHOT
"Je ne croyais pas que la beauté des vers y fût capable d'une actrice aussi vivante. Que la vie et le style peuvent être à ce point associés, que l'harmonie engendrât l'horreur, et la beauté le déchirement..."Autograph letter of congratulations, dated and signed, addressed to Marcelle Tassencourt for the excellence of her interpretation of Antigone
s. n.|Paris s.d.[1944]|21 x 27 cm|une feuille + une enveloppe
Autograph letter signed and dated, one page, from Maurice Blanchot addressed to the theater actress Marcelle Tassencourt, wife of Thierry Maulnier, 18 lines in black ink.
Central folds inherent to postal handling, envelope included.

Maurice Blanchot praises the acting performance of Marcelle Tassencourt who created, in 1944, the role of Antigone in Robert Garnier's play directed by her husband, Thierry Maulnier: "... cette Antigone m'a beaucoup touché. Je ne croyais pas que la beauté des vers y fût capable d'une actrice aussi vivante. Que la vie et le style peuvent être à ce point associés, que l'harmonie engendrât l'horreur, et la beauté le déchirement, c'est que...
€600
Maurice BLANCHOT
" être au plus près de chacun, dans la pensée "communiste", là où tout souffre, tout se reconnait, se découvre"Bristol autograph dated and signed addressed to his sister Marguerite Blanchot
S. n.|s. l. 11 Décembre 1969|10 x 7.50 cm|une feuille + une enveloppe
Autograph card dated and signed by Maurice Blanchot to his sister Marguerite, 12 lines in black ink. Manuscript envelope included.
"Cher marg,
voici donc des paroles comme testamentaires, accueille-les non comme venant de moi, mais d'une recherche qui a, par hasard, et sans mérite ni démérite, passée par moi qui m'y suis soumis comme j'ai pu, qu'est-ce qui importe finalement ? être au plus près de chacun, dans la pensée "communiste", là où tout souffre, tout se reconnait, se découvre, être en ce coeur pour chacun, pour tous. Avec toute mon affection. Maurice." (Dear Marg, here then are words like testamentary ones, receive them not as coming from me, but from a search which...
€1,000
Maurice BLANCHOT
Bristol autographe adressé à sa nièce Annick Blanchot
S. n.|s. l. s.d. (ca 1965)|10 x 7.50 cm|une feuille + une enveloppe
Autograph card from Maurice Blanchot to his niece Annick, 5 lines in black ink. Manuscript envelope included.
"Pour Annick (on the envelope),
ce livre ne t'apportera rien de consolant, mais du moins reçois-le comme le témoignage de mon affection qui ne te manquera pas, aussi longtemps que vivre sera possible - et peut-être, au-delà, par le souvenir." (For Annick, this book will bring you nothing consoling, but at least receive it as testimony of my affection which will not fail you, as long as living remains possible - and perhaps, beyond that, through memory.)

€700
Maurice BLANCHOT (Alfred JARRY)
Un roman de Jarry. Manuscrit autographe et tapuscrit signé complets
S. n. • [ Journal des débats]|s. l. • (Paris) s. d. [1944]|13.50 x 21.50 cm|2 1/2 pages in-8
Autograph manuscript by the author, 2½ pages octavo, published in the April 13, 1944 issue of the Journal des Débats.
Complete recto-verso manuscript, in very dense handwriting, with numerous deletions, corrections and additions.
Together with the complete signed typescript.
Chronicle published on the occasion of the publication of Jarry's posthumous novel, La Dragonne.

In this chronicle devoted to Alfred Jarry and Père Ubu, Maurice Blanchot was interested in the confusion between one and the other and its consequences: « [...] on peut penser que Jarry, en s'entêtant à être le Père Ubu, a pendant sa vie gaspillé une partie...
€3,000
(Jean-Paul SARTRE) Maurice BLANCHOT
Le roman de Jean-Paul Sartre. Manuscrit autographe et tapuscrit complets.
S. n. • [ Paysage dimanche]|s. l. • (Paris) s. d. [1945]|11.50 x 22 cm|3 pages 1/2 in-4
Autograph manuscript by the author, 3½ pages octavo, published in the October 21, 1945 issue (no. 19) of Paysage dimanche.
Complete recto-verso manuscript, in very dense handwriting, with numerous deletions, corrections and additions.
Literary chronicle published on the occasion of the publication of the first two volumes of Jean-Paul Sartre's trilogy Les chemins de la liberté: "L'Age de raison" and "Le Sursis".
Together with the complete typescript, with one deletion and one autograph correction by the author.

When this chronicle appeared in autumn 1945, Maurice Blanchot and Jean-Paul Sartre had already demonstrated their mutual interest in each...
€3,000
Maurice BLANCHOT
Aminadab[Aminadab]
Gallimard|Paris 1942|14 x 20.50 cm|broché
First edition, an advance (service de presse) copy.

Three small wormholes and a clear dampstain to margin of upper cover, one joint cracked at foot.
Retaining its prière d'insérer.
Very precious and moving autograph inscription signed and dated by Maurice Blanchot to his mother and sister: "Personne ne reçoit tant de Dieu que celui qui est entièrement mort. Saint Grégoire. Pour sa chère maman et sa vieille Marg, en toute affection. Maurice [No one receives God so fully as someone who is entirely dead. Saint Gregory. For his darling mother and old Marg, with all love. Maurice]."

€2,500
Maurice BLANCHOT
Le pas au-delà
Gallimard|Paris 1973|14 x 20.50 cm|broché
First edition, an advance (service de presse) copy.
Very handsome and moving autograph inscription signed by Maurice Blanchot to his sister on a calling card pasted to head of one endpaper: "A ma chère Marg. Ce livre d'amitié et pour l'amitié (plus à feuilleter qu'à lire, peut-être) avec ma grande affection. Maurice [To my dear sister Marg. This book of friendship, or book for friendship (maybe more to leaf through than to read) with great affection. Maurice]."
A good copy.
€1,500
Maurice BLANCHOT
Le livre à venir
Gallimard|Paris 1959|13.50 x 19.50 cm|broché
First edition, an advance (service de presse) copy.
A very handsome and moving autograph inscription from Maurice Blanchot to his sister : "Pour ma chère Marguerite qui porte maintenant (mot illisible) le poids de mon affection. Maurice [For my dear Marguerite who now bears (illegible word) the weight of my affection. Maurice]."
A good copy.
€1,500
Maurice BLANCHOT (Friedrich NIETZSCHE)
Du côté de Nietzsche - Manuscrit autographe complet[On Nietzsche’s Side – Complete Autograph Manuscript]
1946|21.70 x 11.50 cm|7 feuillets foliotés
Autograph manuscript by the author, 14 pages in octavo, published in issue no. 12 (December 1945–January 1946) of L'Arche.
A complete recto-verso manuscript in a densely written hand, with numerous deletions, corrections, and additions.
Essay published on the occasion of the release of Father du Lubac’s Le Drame de l’humanisme athée.

After the war, the place of Friedrich Nietzsche—alongside the Marquis de Sade and Søren Kierkegaard—in Maurice Blanchot’s thought reflects the decisive influence of Georges Bataille and the philosophers he held in highest regard. From this point on, Blanchot devoted many texts to these figures, and “Du côté de Nietzsche”...
€2,500
Maurice BLANCHOT
Adolphe ou le malheur des sentiments - Manuscrit autographe.
1946|20.90 x 13.70 cm|en feuilles
Autograph manuscript by the author of sixteen and a half pages in-8vo published in issue 20 (October 1946) of L'Arche and reprinted, slightly revised, in La Part du Feu (1949).
Complete recto-verso manuscript, in very dense handwriting, with numerous deletions, corrections and additions.

Benjamin Constant's Adolphe, who was one of the prestigious contributors to the Journal des débats during its golden age, interests Maurice Blanchot at the very moment when he begins a passionate relationship with Denise Rollin, former mistress of Georges Bataille. Moreover, "Adolphe ou le malheur des sentiments vrais" is one of Blanchot's rare...
€2,300
Maurice BLANCHOT (André BRETON)
Reflexions sur le surréalisme - Manuscrit autographe complet
1945|22 x 11.50 cm|8 feuillets foliotés
Autograph manuscript by the author of 16 octavo pages published in number 8 (August 1945) of L'Arche under the title: Some Reflections on Surrealism.
Complete recto-verso manuscript, with very dense writing, containing numerous deletions, corrections and additions.

Some Reflections on Surrealism forms the first important text that Maurice Blanchot devoted to André Breton's movement. He rehabilitates surrealism which placed at the center of its activity the question of language and experience - aspects that could not leave Blanchot indifferent -, without forgetting to make the following observations: it carries within it a part of failure and its...
€4,000
Maurice BLANCHOT
Lettre tapuscrite à Sartre
2 décembre 1960|26.70 x 20.90 cm|5 feuillets in-4
(Draft typescript of letter to Jean-Paul Sartre, with autograph corrections and with a second version of the first page, and typescript with autograph corrections of "Le monde en question (Cours du monde)" (project for La Revue internationale)

Set of five typescript leaves, rectos only (with the exception of one leaf recto-verso), with corrections in red and black ballpoint pen in Maurice Blanchot's hand.

This important collection bears witness to the exchanges between Maurice Blanchot and Jean-Paul Sartre around the famous "Déclaration sur le droit à l'insoumission dans la guerre d'Algérie" and the publication project that resulted from it, La Revue...
€800
Maurice BLANCHOT (Marcel PROUST)
L'expérience de Proust. Manuscrit autographe complet[The Proust Experience. Complete Autograph Manuscript]
1943|21 x 13 cm|en feuilles
Autograph manuscript by the author, four and a half pages in octavo, published in the issue of Journal des Débats dated 12 May 1943.
Complete recto-verso manuscript in a dense hand, featuring numerous deletions, corrections, and additions.
A literary column written on the occasion of the publication of Ramon Fernandez’s book À la gloire de Proust.

It was to Maurice Blanchot that his friend Emmanuel Levinas owed his discovery of the work of Marcel Proust, which he deeply admired despite Charles Maurras’s condemnation—a judgment that, at first, failed to turn him away from it. What Blanchot valued most in Proust was his at times fluid rhythm and his...
€2,300
Maurice BLANCHOT
Le Paradoxe d'Aytré - Manuscrit original et tapuscrit complets
S. n.|s. l. 1949|13.50 x 21.50 cm
Autograph manuscript by the author of 16 pages in-8 published in number 9 (June 1946) of Les Temps modernes and reprinted, slightly revised, in La Part du Feu (1949).
Complete recto-verso manuscript, very densely written, with numerous deletions, corrections and additions.
Accompanied by the complete typescript with autograph corrections in black ink.

"Le Paradoxe d'Aytré" ["Aytré's Paradox"] is the first text by Maurice Blanchot that Jean-Paul Sartre published in the pages of Les Temps modernes, the spearhead of committed literature. Three others would follow until 1952 ("Le roman, œuvre de mauvaise foi" ["The Novel, a Work of Bad Faith"], "A...
€2,800
Maurice BLANCHOT
Le ressassement éternel
Les Editions de Minuit|Paris 1952|12 x 19 cm|relié
First edition on ordinary paper.
Half black morocco over marbled paper boards by P. Goy & C. Vilaine, spine in six compartments, date at foot, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, blue folded covers preserved, top edge gilt.
Exceptional autograph inscription from Maurice Blanchot to his brother and sister-in-law Inge: "Pour vous, mes chers, ces pages hélàs très anciennes que seuls vous pouvez garder jeunes... Et en effet quoi de plus proche de la solennelle fatigue de la mort que le piétinement de la monotonie, harcèlement gigantesque au sein du recommencement [For you my darlings, these pages sadly so old that only you can keep them young…And indeed what could be closer to the solemn...
€1,800
Maurice BLANCHOT
De la louange à la souveraineté. Manuscrit autographe et tapuscrit complets
S. n. • [ Journal des débats]|s. l. • [Paris] s. d. [1943]|13.50 x 21 cm|4 1/2 pages in-8
Autograph manuscript by the author, 4 and a half octavo pages, published in the June 2, 1943 issue of the Journal des Débats.
Complete manuscript in very dense handwriting, with numerous deletions, corrections and additions.
Literary chronicle published on the occasion of the publication of Servius et la fortune by Georges Dumézil. The complete typescript is included.

By devoting his study to Dumézil's work on Servius, Blanchot established a crucial milestone in the evolution of his own thought, the passage from political conviction to literary engagement.
This reflection on sovereignty indeed led the former Maurrassian to reorient...
€1,500
Maurice BLANCHOT (Jean GIRAUDOUX)
Le mythe de Giraudoux. Manuscrit autographe et tapuscrit complets.
S. n. • [ Paysage dimanche]|s. l. • [Paris] s. d. [1945]|11.50 x 22 cm|3 pages in-4
Autograph manuscript by the author, 3 quarto pages, published in issue 17 of October 7, 1945 of the newspaper Le Paysage Dimanche. Complete manuscript in very dense handwriting, with numerous deletions, corrections and additions.
Chronicle published on the occasion of the numerous studies on Giraudoux's work that appeared since his death in January 1944.
The complete typescript is included.
While the numerous references to his work in the articles of the Journal des Débats reveal Giraudoux's ascendancy over Blanchot, the latter nevertheless manifests a clear desire to free himself from this paternity. Thus he removes from Faux-Pas numerous...
€1,500
Maurice BLANCHOT
Une étude sur l'Apocalypse. Manuscrit autographe et tapuscrit complets
S. n. • [ Journal des débats]|s. l. • [Paris] s. d. [1945]|13.50 x 21 cm|4 1/2 pages in-8
Autograph manuscript by the author of 4 and a half pages in-8 published in the issue of November 3, 1943 of Journal des Débats.
Complete recto-verso manuscript, in very dense handwriting, with numerous deletions, corrections and additions.
The complete typescript is included.
Chronicle published on the occasion of the publication of L'Apocalypse de St Jean, vision chrétienne de l'histoire by Father H.M. Féret.

From the outset, Maurice Blanchot, doing his job as a critic, praises the seriousness of the study conducted by Father Féret. But what interests him more than this careful orthodoxy are the powerful echoes of L'Apocalypse in the...
€1,200
Maurice BLANCHOT (André DHÔTEL)
A l'ombre du romanesque. Manuscrit autographe et tapuscrit complets
S. n. • [ Paysage dimanche]|s. l. • [Paris] s. d. [1945]|11.50 x 22 cm|3 pages 1/2 in-4
Autograph manuscript by the author of 3 and a half pages in-4 published in number 23 of November 18, 1945 of Paysage Dimanche. Complete manuscript in very dense handwriting, with numerous deletions, corrections and additions. Literary chronicle of André Dhôtel's work. The complete typescript is included.
When the apostle of silence in literature speaks of the novelist of the invisible, this produces a strange apology for a work « destinée à sauver [...] l'essence du romanesque, sa vie pure et secrète », « passionnante jusque dans sa monotonie, selon le rythme des plus belles histoires romanesques où il ne se passe rien, mais où l'imprévu est toujours imminent. »...
€1,200
Maurice BLANCHOT (Claude ROY)
Nouvelles et récits. Manuscrit autographe et tapuscrit complets
S. n. • [ Journal des débats]|s. l. • [Paris] s. d. [1944]|13.50 x 21.50 cm|2 1/2 pages in-8
Autograph manuscript by the author of 2 and a half octavo pages published in the April 20, 1944 issue of Journal des Débats. Complete manuscript with very dense writing, containing numerous strikethroughs, corrections and additions. Literary chronicle on the work of Claude Roy. The complete typescript is included.
This critique of La Mer à boire by Claude Roy is at once a detailed analysis of each short story and a poetic hymn to the poet's writing: "Le style de Claude Roy répond à merveille à ce jeu de nuances : il est lui aussi plein d'échos qui s'évanouissent, de mots qui se répercutent: il est libre, discipliné, tout en inventions et fidèle à la réalité qu'il...
€1,200
Maurice BLANCHOT (Yvon BELAVAL)
Le souci de sincérité. Manuscrit autographe et tapuscrit complets
S. n. • [ Journal des débats]|s. l. • [Paris] s. d. [1944]|13.50 x 21.50 cm|2 1/2 pages in-8
Autograph manuscript by the author of 2 and a half pages in-4 published in the March 2, 1944 issue of Journal des Débats. Complete manuscript with very dense writing, containing numerous strikethroughs, corrections and additions. Literary chronicle published on the occasion of the publication, in the new collection of Gallimard editions devoted to "La Jeune Philosophie," of the work "Le souci de sincérité" by Yvon Belaval. The complete typescript is included.

Under Blanchot's pen, philosophical criticism acquires its own autonomy which makes it impossible to distinguish between Belaval's original thought and the luminous interpretation that Maurice Blanchot offers of it, in a few...
€1,500
(Jean-Paul SARTRE) Maurice BLANCHOT
Le roman de Jean-Paul Sartre - Manuscrit autographe et tapuscrit complets.
S. n. • [ Paysage dimanche]|s. l. • [Paris] s. d. [1945]|11.50 x 22 cm|3 pages 1/2 in-4
Autograph manuscript by the author of 3½ pages octavo published in the October 21, 1945 issue (no. 19) of Paysage dimanche.
Complete recto-verso manuscript, very densely written, with numerous deletions, corrections and additions.
Literary chronicle published on the occasion of the publication of the first two volumes of Jean-Paul Sartre's trilogy Les chemins de la liberté: "L'Age de raison" and "Le Sursis".
The complete typescript is included, with one deletion and one autograph correction by the author.

When this chronicle appeared in autumn 1945, Maurice Blanchot and Jean-Paul Sartre had already demonstrated mutual interest in their respective...
€3,000
Maurice BLANCHOT
Romans nouveaux. Manuscrit autographe et tapuscrit complets
S. n. • [ Journal des débats]|s. l. • [Paris] s. d. [1942]|13.50 x 21.50 cm|4 1/2 pages in-8
Autograph manuscript by the author of 4½ pages octavo published in the December 23, 1942 issue of Journal des Débats.
Complete recto-verso manuscript, very densely written, with numerous deletions, corrections and additions.
The complete typescript is included.
Chronicle published on the occasion of the publication of four new novels: Les Hommes forts by Georges Magnane, Le Vent se lève by Marius Grout, Clément by Maurice Toesca and Si le ciel tombe by Roger de Lafforest.

At the end of 1942, Maurice Blanchot reviews current literary events and provides uncompromising criticism of four novels by Georges Magnane, Marius...
€1,000
Maurice BLANCHOT
Journal sans épisodes. Manuscrit autographe et tapuscrit complets
S. n. • [ Journal des débats]|s. l. • [Paris] s. d. [1944]|13.50 x 21.50 cm|2 1/2 pages in-8
Autograph manuscript by the author of 2½ pages in-8 published in the February 10, 1944 issue of Journal des Débats.
Complete manuscript with very dense handwriting, containing numerous deletions, corrections and additions.
Literary chronicle published on the occasion of the publication of Jean Dumay's "Journal de guerre".
The complete typescript is included.
Between April 1941 and August 1944, Maurice Blanchot published 173 articles on recently published books in the "Chronique de la vie intellectuelle" of Journal des Débats.
In half a newspaper page (approximately seven pages in-8), the young author of "Thomas l'obscur" takes his first steps in the field of literary...
€1,200
Maurice BLANCHOT
Les plaintes de l'ombre. Manuscrit autographe et tapuscrit complets.
S. n. • [ Journal des débats]|s. l. • [Paris] s. d. [1943]|13.50 x 21.50 cm|2 1/2 pages in-8
Autograph manuscript by the author, 2½ pages octavo, published in the December 10, 1943 issue of the Journal des Débats. Complete manuscript in very dense handwriting, with numerous deletions, corrections and additions. Literary chronicle published on the occasion of the publication of Passage de l'homme by Marius Grout, winner of the 1943 Prix Goncourt. Accompanied by the complete typescript.
Blanchot's critique of this future Prix Goncourt winner is not gentle, although he perfectly grasps its stakes. This story whose tragic unfolding ends in a deception that creates a new faith contains, for Blanchot, an equivocal moral.
"We understand what Marius Grout seeks to show...
€1,200
Maurice BLANCHOT
Le pèlerinage aux sources - Manuscrit autographe et tapuscrit complets.
S. n. • [ Journal des débats]|s. l. • [Paris] s. d. [1944]|13.50 x 21.50 cm|2 1/2 pages in-8

Autograph manuscript by the author, 2½ pages octavo, published in the January 13, 1944 issue of the Journal des Débats.
Complete recto-verso manuscript, in very dense handwriting, with numerous deletions, corrections and additions.
Accompanied by the complete typescript, with one autograph correction in black ink.

Chronicle published on the occasion of the publication of Le pèlerinage aux sources by Joseph Lanza del Vasto.

This chronicle by Maurice Blanchot forms an astonishing echo to one of his very first published texts (1931), devoted to Gandhi's Memoirs, which already contained the essence of his thought from the 1930s...
€1,200
Maurice BLANCHOT
D'un roman à l'autre. Manuscrit autographe et tapuscrit complets.
S. n. • [ Journal des débats]|s. l. • [Paris] s. d. [1944]|13.50 x 21.50 cm|2 1/2 pages in-8
Autograph manuscript by the author of 2 and a half octavo pages published in the January 20, 1944 issue of Journal des Débats. Complete manuscript in very dense handwriting, with numerous deletions, corrections and additions. Literary chronicle on the literary current events of the moment. The complete typescript is included.

"The subject is not limited to the plot: it depends equally on incidents of language, details of composition and, even more, on those images that reveal the meaning of creation; the subject of a novel is above all the world it brings to birth."

This principle of the novelistic art could just as well apply to the chronicle it...
€1,000
Maurice BLANCHOT
Tradition et surréalisme. Manuscrit autographe et tapuscrit complets[Tradition and Surrealism. Complete Autograph Manuscript and Typescript]
S. n. • [ Journal des débats]|s. l. • [Paris] s. d. [1943]|13.50 x 21.50 cm|2 1/2 pages in-8
Autograph manuscript by the author of 2 and a half quarto pages published in the December 23, 1943 issue of Journal des Débats.
Complete manuscript in very dense handwriting, with numerous deletions, corrections and additions. The complete typescript is included.
This article, one of the rare pieces to appear on the journal's front page, is an audacious critique of the traditionalist vision of Art, which, arguing for the necessary adequacy between Art and Truth, condemns Modernity. With implacable intellectual rigor, Blanchot demonstrates how this conception of "authentic Art" "joins exactly that of the surrealists" and cites one of the major...
€1,500
Maurice BLANCHOT
Voyages de Montesquieu. Manuscrit autographe et tapuscrit complets. [Montesquieu’s Travels. Complete autograph manuscript and typescript]
S. n. • [ Journal des débats]|s. l. • [Paris] s. d. [1943]|13.50 x 21.50 cm|4 1/2 pages in-8
Autograph manuscript by the author of 4½ pages in-8 published in the September 8, 1943 issue of Journal des Débats.
Complete manuscript with very dense handwriting, containing numerous deletions, corrections and additions.
The complete typescript is included.
Literary chronicle published on the occasion of the publication of Les Voyages de Montesquieu, prefaced by Marcel Arland.
This artificial collection of Montesquieu's travel notebooks gives Blanchot the opportunity to praise a form of "natural" writing, "pure of all concern for readership". These intimate notes indeed testify to an art of "concision [which] delivers [facts] to...
€1,200
Maurice BLANCHOT
Les treize formes d'un roman. Manuscrit autographe et tapuscrit complets.
S. n. • [ Journal des débats]|s. l. • [Paris] s. d. [1943]|13.50 x 21.50 cm|4 1/2 pages in-8
Autograph manuscript by the author of 2½ pages in-4 published in the May 26, 1943 issue of Journal des Débats. Complete manuscript with very dense handwriting, containing numerous deletions, corrections and additions. The complete typescript is included.
Each chapter of Roland Cailleux's novel, Saint-Genès ou la vie brève, presents a different narrative form. This gives Blanchot the opportunity to return to the interest of this literary audacity initiated a few years earlier by Joyce: "The novel showed itself there with all its possibilities, it metamorphosed into everything it could be."
Between April 1941 and August 1944, Maurice Blanchot published 173...
€1,200
Maurice BLANCHOT
Le ressassement éternel
Les Editions de Minuit|Paris 1951|11.50 x 18.50 cm|relié
First edition, one of 990 copies on Ghaldwill, the only deluxe copies after 10 on pur fil.
Half blue morocco binding, smooth spine, gilt date at foot, covers with marbled paper, blue paper endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers and spine preserved (spine slightly sunned with small filled losses), top edge gilt, binding signed by Goy & Vilaine.
Exceptional and moving signed autograph inscription from Maurice Blanchot to his mother and sister: "Pour vous mes très chères, ces pages, hélas bien anciennes, en toute affection. Maurice. / Mais avant le commencement, il y a le recommencement qui fait de la lumière une fascination, de toute chose une image et de nous le coeur...
€2,800
Maurice BLANCHOT
Thomas l'obscur
Gallimard|Paris 1941|14 x 20.50 cm|broché
First edition, an advance (service de presse) copy.
Handsome, fine autograph inscription from Maurice Blanchot to Gaston Gallimard on ffep: "On ne s'arrête plus aux tables des heureux, puisqu'on est mort. (Charles Cros) / A Gaston Gallimard, ce livre destiné à écarter tout lecteur [One doesn’t stop any more at the table of the joyous, for one is dead. (Charles Cros) / To Gaston Gallimard, this book destined to drive away every reader]."
Two repaired tears to head of spine (slightly sunned), one tiny scratch to head of upper cover, paper yellowed at edges of some pages as usual, ffep repaired with small lack at foot.
€2,300
Maurice BLANCHOT
Aminadab
Gallimard|Paris 1942|14 x 20.50 cm|broché
First edition, an advance (service de presse) copy.
Handsome and attractive autograph inscription from Maurice Blanchot to Gaston Gallimard : "... ce livre qui lui doit deux fois l'existence. / Quand je contemplai ceci, je soupirai et dis en moi-même : certainement l'homme est un balai. Swift […this book that owes him its existence doubly./ When I think about that, I sigh and say to myself: man truly is foolish.” Swift]"
Repaired tear to head of spine (lightly sunned), paper yellowed at edges of some pages, as usual.
€2,000
Maurice BLANCHOT
Aminadab
Gallimard|Paris 1942|14 x 20.50 cm|relié
First edition, an advance (service de presse) copy.
Elegant half dark red morocco over marbled paper boards by P. Goy & C. Vilaine, spine in six compartments, gilt date to foot, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, covers and spine (sunned) preserved, top edge gilt.
Fine and handsome autograph inscription signed from Maurice Blanchot to his brother René and his wife Inge : Un bonze demanda un jour au bonze Sozan Daishi : Qu'est-ce quiest le plus précieux au monde ? / N'importe quoi, une charogne, latête d'un chat mort, répondit Sosan Daishi. / Pourquoi ? ? Parcequ'on ne peut l'évaluer. Zenso Mondo. / Pour René et Inge en toute affection. Maurice. [A bonze asked bonze Sozan...
€2,800
Maurice BLANCHOT
Faux pas
Gallimard|Paris 1943|14 x 21 cm|relié
First edition, a Service de Presse (advance) copy.
Half red morocco binding, spine with five raised bands, date gilt at foot, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers preserved (a very pale stain on the first cover), top edge gilt, elegant binding signed by P. Goy & C. Vilaine.
Precious and moving autograph inscription signed by Maurice Blanchot to his mother and sister: "Pour sa chère maman et sa vieille Marg avec l'amitié sans Faux Pas de Maurice." ["For his dear mama and his old Marg with friendship without False Steps from Maurice."]
Marguerite Blanchot, renowned organist at Chalon cathedral, remained all her life in the...
€3,000
Maurice BLANCHOT
Aminadab
Gallimard|Paris 1942|14.50 x 21 cm|broché
First edition, an advance (service de presse) copy. A handsome and moving autograph inscription from Maurice Blanchot to his brother, sister-in-law and nephews: "Qui m'a tué ma mort, c'est là ce que je demande. H. von Kleist ["Who killed my death, that is what I ask here. H. von Kleist”].
Covers and spine lightly sunned at edges (but not seriously).
€1,700
Maurice BLANCHOT
Les intellectuels en question - In Le journal des débats N°29
Le journal des débats|Paris Mars 1984|18.50 x 26.50 cm|agrafé
The first edition, published in a small number of copies, of which there were no deluxe copies, of this offprint from Pierre Nora's review, Le Débat.
Precious signed autograph inscription from Maurice Blanchot to his sister "... for you, this little reading and to help you regain courage".
Marguerite Blanchot, renowned organist at Chalon cathedral, remained all her life in the family home, with her mother and aunt. "She would gradually become, for the family, like the memory of origins." Very close to Maurice, she corresponded regularly with the writer who showed her great gratitude for her devotion to their invalid mother. While Blanchot's intense affection for...
€1,500
Maurice BLANCHOT
L'espace littéraire
Gallimard|Paris 1968|11 x 16.50 cm|broché
New pocket edition, an advance copy.
Moving and precious signed autograph inscription from Maurice Blanchot to his sister Marguerite: "Pour ma très chère soeur, Marguerite, ce livre, prémisses peut-être de "la fin du livre" avec les tendres excuses de MB." ["For my very dear sister, Marguerite, this book, perhaps the premises of "the end of the book" with tender apologies from MB."]
Marguerite Blanchot, a renowned organist at Chalon cathedral, remained all her life in the family home, with her mother and aunt. "She would gradually become, for the family, like the memory of origins." Very close to Maurice, she corresponded regularly with the writer who showed her...
€700
Maurice BLANCHOT (Franz KAFKA)
De Kafka à Kafka[From Kafka to Kafka]
Gallimard|Paris 1981|11 x 18 cm|broché
The first edition published only in paperback format, of which there were no deluxe copies, one of the Service de Presse (advance) copies.
Moving and precious signed autograph inscription from Maurice Blanchot to his sister Marguerite on a card mounted on the first endpaper: "Chère Marg, ce livre qui n'est pas un livre mais qui te dit en ces jours si sombres, ma fidèle, ma profonde affection. Maurice." ["Dear Marg, this book which is not a book but which tells you in these dark days, my faithful one, my deep affection. Maurice."]
Envelope bearing Marguerite Blanchot's address written by her brother Maurice mounted on the half-title page. Marguerite Blanchot...
€1,200

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