[Faux-Pas] Digressions. Jeu complet d'épreuves abondamment corrigées par l'auteur.

Maurice BLANCHOT
[Faux-Pas] Digressions. Complete set of proofs with numerous manuscript corrections by the author
[1943] | 18.5 x 41 cm | loose leaves
The complete proofs of Faux-Pas – originally titled Digressions, the title having been changed in pencil – with numerous manuscript corrections and annotations, as well as several deleted passages.
Small tears without lack to some leaves, some pages dog-eared.
With three typescript leaves of heavily corrected galleys.
A unique document that bears witness to Maurice Blanchot's work preparing for publication in book form his best columns in the Journal des Débats.
This “faux-pas”, which was meant to be nothing more than a digression in the young writer's career, in fact became the first step towards the most significant literary criticism of the 20th century.