Sur un monde en ruines. Manuscrit autographe et tapuscrit complets

Autograph manuscript of the author of 2 ½ pages 8vo published in the issue dated 30 December 1943 of the Journal of Debates. Complete manuscript writing very dense, with many erasures, corrections and additions.
Typescript is complete seal.
Blanchot finds the gap between the ruined world "which is the truth of the world" that literature is forced to confront and personality of writers who do not seem to live this tragedy. "Feeling too obvious that the author [...] is happy to write, it is fortunate for him," contrast with characters who "through the desolation of events [...] hit some something deeper that they can no longer support nor reject or evade. "So this critique Gerbe Baude is it also a good opportunity to remember that the theme of the disaster, became a literary compulsion" to be taken as a revelation not only on literary trends, but the meaning of the world. "
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.