Roman et récit de guerre. Manuscrit autographe et tapuscrit complets.

Autograph manuscript of the author of 5 pages 8vo published in the issue dated 27 January 1943 of the Journal of Debates. Complete manuscript writing very dense, with many erasures, corrections and additions. Chronic literary published on the occasion of the publication by Gallimard of the book "The faithful shepherd" Alexander Vialatte and also referring to the works of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Typescript is complete seal.
At the heart of the Occupation Blanchot focuses on two accounts of the French debacle of 1940 and the absurdity of the world it reveals. But the madness in which immerses the autobiographical character Vialatte is not for Blanchot, equivalent to that of war:
"Given the nonsense that he had the sudden revelation, his delusion is an ideal of order and balance (...) it is crazy to be fell short of such a folly. "
Tragic indicator of the "personal situation of the human being," the war through Vialatte "expresses one of the few genuine concerns of our time."
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.