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New pocket edition, an advance copy.
Moving and precious signed autograph inscription from Maurice Blanchot to his sister Marguerite: "Pour ma très chère soeur, Marguerite, ce livre, prémisses peut-être de "la fin du livre" avec les tendres excuses de MB." ["For my very dear sister, Marguerite, this book, perhaps the premises of "the end of the book" with tender apologies from MB."]
Marguerite Blanchot, a renowned organist at Chalon cathedral, remained all her life in the family home, with her mother and aunt. "She would gradually become, for the family, like the memory of origins." Very close to Maurice, she corresponded regularly with the writer who showed her great gratitude for her devotion to their invalid mother. While Blanchot's intense affection for his mother and sister shows through in his dedications, we know almost nothing of their relationship. In the only biographical essay on Blanchot, Christophe Bident reveals however: "Marguerite Blanchot revered her brother Maurice. Very proud of him, (...) she attached great importance to his political ideas (...). She read extensively (...) They telephoned each other, corresponded. At a distance, they shared the same natural authority, the same concern for discretion." Blanchot indeed sent her numerous works from his library, maintaining with her a continuous intellectual bond.
A handsome copy.