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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

€1,200
⬨ 89878
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 péripéties anormales sont faibles au regard des faits véritables que l'imagination suppose ou que la mémoire rappelle. [...] Prélude d'apocalypse paraît infidèle lorsqu'il n'est qu'un documentaire et insuffisant lorsqu'il prête des péripéties de fin du monde à une simple aventure historique. »
Yet the « merveilleux scientifique » gave rise to major works by Edgar Allan Poe, Louis Stevenson, and H.G. Wells. But it is a treacherous genre, and even Auguste de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam somewhat lost his way in L'Eve future: « Ce dernier livre qui a pour sujet la création d'une machine humaine par le savant Edison montre assez bien les difficultés du genre. Villiers qui se piquait de culture scientifique a décrit avec minutie le mécanisme de l'automate. [...] Mais ce "bizarre cours d'anatomie" aujourd'hui nous lasse et la virtuosité des explications nous paraît futile. Au contraire, ce qui nous attire, c'est l'effort pour égarer la conscience, l'éternelle tentation de rendre illusoire l'existence par l'imitation qu'on en fait, le jeu troublant du reflet qui donne tort à l'image, de l'ombre qui abolit le modèle. »

A highly critical text by Blanchot on fantastic entertainment.

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  • author:
    BLANCHOT Maurice
  • Publisher:
    Journal des débats
  • Places of publication:
    s. l.[Paris]
  • Year:
    s. d. [1944]
  • Dimensions:
    13.50 x 21.50 cm
Réf : 89878|€1,200
Maurice BLANCHOT • [Fantastic Novels. Complete autograph manuscript and typescript] • Romans fantastiques.  Manuscrit autographe et tapuscrit complets • Autograph • 1944
Maurice BLANCHOT • [Fantastic Novels. Complete autograph manuscript and typescript] • Romans fantastiques.  Manuscrit autographe et tapuscrit complets • Autograph • 1944
Maurice BLANCHOT • [Fantastic Novels. Complete autograph manuscript and typescript] • Romans fantastiques.  Manuscrit autographe et tapuscrit complets • Autograph • 1944
Maurice BLANCHOT • [Fantastic Novels. Complete autograph manuscript and typescript] • Romans fantastiques.  Manuscrit autographe et tapuscrit complets • Autograph • 1944
Maurice BLANCHOT • [Fantastic Novels. Complete autograph manuscript and typescript] • Romans fantastiques.  Manuscrit autographe et tapuscrit complets • Autograph • 1944
Maurice BLANCHOT • [Fantastic Novels. Complete autograph manuscript and typescript] • Romans fantastiques.  Manuscrit autographe et tapuscrit complets • Autograph • 1944
€1,200
⬨ 89878

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