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L'expérience de Proust. Manuscrit autographe complet

[The Proust Experience. Complete Autograph Manuscript]

1943|21 x 13 cm|en feuilles

€2,300
⬨ 48328
Autograph manuscript by the author, four and a half pages in octavo, published in the issue of Journal des Débats dated 12 May 1943.
Complete recto-verso manuscript in a dense hand, featuring numerous deletions, corrections, and additions.
A literary column written on the occasion of the publication of Ramon Fernandez’s book À la gloire de Proust.

It was to Maurice Blanchot that his friend Emmanuel Levinas owed his discovery of the work of Marcel Proust, which he deeply admired despite Charles Maurras’s condemnation—a judgment that, at first, failed to turn him away from it. What Blanchot valued most in Proust was his at times fluid rhythm and his remarkable sense of the scene. Placing him within his literary pantheon alongside the Marquis de Sade and Franz Kafka, Blanchot was drawn in the early 1940s to the very nature of the experience Proust conveyed in his novels: « L'œuvre de Proust est sortie d'états mystérieux qui semblent ne lui avoir été proposés que pour que cette œuvre fût écrite. Ils ont servi de stimulant à une extraordinaire avidité de connaître et, eux qui étaient d'abord une rupture de connaissance, ont fourni un aliment inépuisable à la connaissance littéraire. Cependant, ce n'est pas l'aspect le moins surprenant du Temps perdu que, dans le flot d'images, d'événements, de théories, de figures dont ils ont été par abus la source, ces états aient gardé la valeur d'un secret, en continuant, selon le pouvoir qui leur était propre, à paraître toujours plus mystérieux que l'œuvre elle-même, pourtant toute chargée de mystères. C'est en cela que Proust n'a pas trahi la révélation qu'il a rencontrée et dont il a offert l'image à la plus étendue et la plus admirable, comme pour montrer qu'elle ne l'épuisait pas. »
The text, later revised, would become part of the opening section of Faux Pas (1943), devoted to what Blanchot regarded as the fundamental question of inner experience.

A very clean manuscript, reflecting Blanchot’s clarity of thought on Proust.

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  • author:
    BLANCHOT Maurice
  • topic:
    PROUST Marcel
  • Year:
    1943
  • Dimensions:
    21 x 13 cm
Réf : 48328|€2,300
Maurice BLANCHOT • [The Proust Experience. Complete Autograph Manuscript] • L'expérience de Proust. Manuscrit autographe complet • Autograph • 1943
Maurice BLANCHOT • [The Proust Experience. Complete Autograph Manuscript] • L'expérience de Proust. Manuscrit autographe complet • Autograph • 1943
Maurice BLANCHOT • [The Proust Experience. Complete Autograph Manuscript] • L'expérience de Proust. Manuscrit autographe complet • Autograph • 1943
Maurice BLANCHOT • [The Proust Experience. Complete Autograph Manuscript] • L'expérience de Proust. Manuscrit autographe complet • Autograph • 1943
Maurice BLANCHOT • [The Proust Experience. Complete Autograph Manuscript] • L'expérience de Proust. Manuscrit autographe complet • Autograph • 1943
€2,300
⬨ 48328

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