Poésie et langage. Manuscrit autographe et tapuscrit complets.

Autograph manuscript of the author of four and a half pages in-8 published in the issue dated 1 September 1943 the Journal of Debates and resumed the same year in Faux-Pas. Complete manuscript writing very dense, with many erasures, corrections and additions. Literary review published on the occasion of the releases of "High Evil" by Michel Leiris and "The ziaux Raymond Queneau. Complete typescript is attached.
In this fundamental test of poetic theory (integrated corpus Faux appeared immediately after) Blanchot makes a deconstruction of traditional hermeneutic categories poetry Leiris renders inoperative:
"The role of images in the poetic universe is not always assume the network under multiple correspondence unit inexpressible reality to which advance, but never reach, the coordinated metaphors. There is a final image that keeps darkly under his attraction fragments of images that our memory offers us the matching, the latter metaphor justifies the most disparate comparisons, we do not know and we do not ask in poetry we learn. It is the quality of the images Top evil to escape this allegorical sighting and succeed according sequences confirms that no provocative unit. "
By comparing two incomparable, Leiris and Queneau poets, Blanchot redefines the relationship of the poem to its kind: "Each piece is poetry and it raises the need for an exclusive basis. [...] There is a poem in every act which brings us to the interview poetry in its essence, essence which itself may not interview and exists only in this poem. "
Between April 1941 and August 1944, Maurice Blanchot published in the "Chronicle of the intellectual life" of the Journal of Debates 173 articles on recently published 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 develop later Many in these essays, "The Share of fire" to "The Infinite Conversation" and "The Writing disaster." From the very first articles, Blanchot demonstrates a sharp analysis far beyond the current literature that motivates writing. Oscillating between classical and modern writers of the first order and minor novelists, he puts in his columns, the foundations of critical thinking which 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," with 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 the two acts between culture which registered its oscillations opposites "(The Book, In Journal of Debates, January 20, 1943). In 2007, Cahiers de la NRF together under the direction of Christophe Bident all literary chronic unpublished volumes with critical analysis of the relevant work of Blanchot "novels, poems, essays give rise to a singular reflection, always safer his own rhetoric, delivered more to echo the impossible or the lure of extinction. (...) 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.