‎Collectibles‎

‎Maurice BLANCHOT‎

‎Aminadab‎

‎Paris: Gallimard 1942. Fine. Gallimard Paris 1942 14 x 20.50 cm relié First edition an advance service de presse copy. Elegant half dark red morocco over marbled paper boards by P. Goy & C. Vilaine spine in six compartments gilt date to foot marbled endpapers and pastedowns covers and spine sunned preserved top edge gilt. Fine and handsome autograph inscription signed from Maurice Blanchot to his brother René and his wife Inge : Un bonze demanda un jour au bonze Sozan Daishi : Qu'est-ce quiest le plus précieux au monde / N'importe quoi une charogne latête d'un chat mort répondit Sosan Daishi. / Pourquoi Parcequ'on ne peut l'évaluer. Zenso Mondo. / Pour René et Inge en toute affection. Maurice. A bonze asked bonze Sozan Daishi one day: “What is the most precious thing in the world”/ “Whatever – a rotting carcass the head of a dead cat” replied Sosan Daishi./ “Why” “Because it's priceless”. Zenso Mondo./ For René and Inge with all love. Maurice”. A very good copy perfectly bound with a moving provenance. Gallimard hardcover‎

Referencia librero : 44674

‎Maurice BLANCHOT‎

‎Aminadab‎

‎Paris: Gallimard 1942. Fine. Gallimard Paris 1942 14 x 20.50 cm broché First edition an advance service de presse copy. Handsome and attractive autograph inscription from Maurice Blanchot to Gaston Gallimard : "". ce livre qui lui doit deux fois l'existence. / Quand je contemplai ceci je soupirai et dis en moi-même : certainement l'homme est un balai. Swift …this book that owes him its existence doubly./ When I think about that I sigh and say to myself: man truly is foolish.” Swift"" Repaired tear to head of spine lightly sunned paper yellowed at edges of some pages as usual. Gallimard unknown‎

Referencia librero : 44722

‎Maurice BLANCHOT‎

‎Aminadab • Aminadab‎

‎Paris: Gallimard 1942. Fine. Gallimard Paris 1942 14 x 20.50 cm broché First edition an advance service de presse copy. Three small wormholes and a clear dampstain to margin of upper cover one joint cracked at foot. Retaining its prière d'insérer.  Very precious and moving autograph inscription signed and dated by Maurice Blanchot to his mother and sister: ""Personne ne reçoit tant de Dieu que celui qui est entièrement mort. Saint Grégoire. Pour sa chère maman et sa vieille Marg en toute affection. Maurice No one receives God so fully as someone who is entirely dead. Saint Gregory. For his darling mother and old Marg with all love. Maurice."" Gallimard unknown‎

Referencia librero : 52427

‎Maurice BLANCHOT‎

‎Au moment voulu‎

‎Paris: Gallimard 1951. Fine. Gallimard Paris 1951 12 x 19 cm broché First edition one of 55 numbered copies on pure thread paper the only deluxe copies. Handsome copy despite the spine very slightly yellowed without consequence. Gallimard unknown‎

Referencia librero : 84985

‎Maurice BLANCHOT‎

‎Au moment voulu‎

‎Paris: Gallimard 1951. Fine. Gallimard Paris 1951 12 x 19 cm broché First edition one of 55 numbered copies on pur fil this one is the number 1 the only large paper copies. A nice copy. Gallimard unknown‎

Referencia librero : 43933

‎Maurice BLANCHARD‎

‎C'est la fête et vous n'en savez rien‎

‎Paris: GLM 1939. Fine. GLM Paris 1939 19.50 x 28.50 cm en feuilles First edition one of 25 numbered copies on Holland paper deluxe copy. Spine and covers very slightly and marginally sunned and discolored as generally found. GLM unknown‎

Referencia librero : 62031

‎Maurice BLANCHOT‎

‎Comment la littérature est-elle possible‎

‎Paris: José Corti 1942. Fine. José Corti Paris 1942 14.50 x 20.50 cm broché First edition one of 350 numbered copies on vergé d'Arches the only large paper copies. A rare and good copy of the first critical essay and second book of Maurice Blanchot after Thomas l'Obscur. Provenance : Maurice Blanchot's library. José Corti unknown‎

Referencia librero : 43577

‎Maurice BLANCHOT - (Franz KAFKA)‎

‎De Kafka à Kafka • From Kafka to Kafka‎

‎Paris: Gallimard 1981. Fine. Gallimard Paris 1981 11 x 18 cm broché The first edition published only in paperback format of which there were no deluxe copies one of the Service de Presse advance copies. Moving and precious signed autograph inscription from Maurice Blanchot to his sister Marguerite on a card mounted on the first endpaper: ""Chère Marg ce livre qui n'est pas un livre mais qui te dit en ces jours si sombres ma fidèle ma profonde affection. Maurice."" ""Dear Marg this book which is not a book but which tells you in these dark days my faithful one my deep affection. Maurice."" Envelope bearing Marguerite Blanchot's address written by her brother Maurice mounted on the half-title page. Marguerite Blanchot renowned organist at the cathedral of Chalon remained all her life in the family home with her mother and aunt. ""She gradually became 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 venerated her brother Maurice. Very proud of him . she attached great importance to his political ideas . She read a great deal . 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 marginal crease at foot of first cover. Handsome copy. Gallimard paperback‎

Referencia librero : 43842

‎Maurice BLANCHOT - (Friedrich NIETZSCHE)‎

‎Du côté de Nietzsche - Manuscrit autographe complet • On Nietzsche’s Side – Complete Autograph Manuscript‎

‎1946. Fine. 1946 21.70 x 11.50 cm 7 feuillets foliotés Autograph manuscript by the author 14 pages in octavo published in issue no. 12 December 1945–January 1946 of L'Arche. A complete recto-verso manuscript in a densely written hand with numerous deletions corrections and additions. Essay published on the occasion of the release of Father du Lubac’s Le Drame de l’humanisme athée. After the war the place of Friedrich Nietzsche—alongside the Marquis de Sade and Søren Kierkegaard—in Maurice Blanchot’s thought reflects the decisive influence of Georges Bataille and the philosophers he held in highest regard. From this point on Blanchot devoted many texts to these figures and “Du côté de Nietzsche” stands as a key testimony of that engagement. The very title of his forthcoming collection La Part du feu to be published in 1949 including this article in a slightly revised form is itself a Bataillean reference. For Blanchot Nietzsche’s power through his use of language and style lies less in his most explicit and oft-commented theses than in the crucible of a more fluid and sometimes self-contradictory discourse: « L'influence de Nietzsche ne se réduit pas aux formes extérieures qu'elle a prises ; c'est probablement au contraire ce qui de Nietzsche a échappé à toute transmission manifeste cette part de lui étrangère aux influences directes qui a exercé l'influence la plus profonde. » This idea would remain central to Blanchot’s reading of the German philosopher. Nietzsche’s inconsistency and ambiguity are embodied in the theme of the death of God central to his work: « En aucune façon le thème de la Mort de Dieu ne peut être l'expression d'un savoir définitif ou l'esquisse d'une proposition stable » Blanchot observes. And he famously adds: « Se contredire est le mouvement essentiel d'une telle pensée. » In L’Entretien infini 1969 Blanchot would once again revisit the Nietzschean question of the death of God where it meets that of the unity of man. A remarkable text by Maurice Blanchot on Friedrich Nietzsche illustrating the profound influence of Georges Bataille on his thought. unknown‎

Referencia librero : 48342

‎Maurice BLANCHOT‎

‎Faux pas‎

‎Paris: Gallimard 1943. Fine. Gallimard Paris 1943 14 x 21 cm relié First edition a Service de Presse advance copy. Half red morocco binding spine with five raised bands date gilt at foot marbled paper boards marbled endpapers and pastedowns original wrappers preserved a very pale stain on the first cover top edge gilt elegant binding signed by P. Goy & C. Vilaine. Precious and moving autograph inscription signed by Maurice Blanchot to his mother and sister: ""Pour sa chère maman et sa vieille Marg avec l'amitié sans Faux Pas de Maurice."" ""For his dear mama and his old Marg with friendship without False Steps from Maurice."" Marguerite Blanchot 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 bedridden mother. While Blanchot's intense affection for his mother and sister shows through in his dedications almost nothing is known of their relationships. In the only biographical essay on Blanchot Christophe Bident reveals however: ""Marguerite Blanchot venerated her brother Maurice. Very proud of him . she attached great importance to his political ideas . She read a great deal . 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. As for Blanchot's passion for his mother it is in the course of his work that we discover the most beautiful testimonies: ""Perhaps the power of the maternal figure borrows its brilliance from the very power of fascination and one could say that if the Mother exercises this fascinating attraction it is because appearing when the child lives entirely under the gaze of fascination she concentrates in herself all the powers of enchantment."" Cultivating absolute discretion Blanchot pushed the art of self-effacement even into his manuscript dedications generally succinct and written almost systematically on cards attached to the rare works he gave to his close friends. In contrast in these precious inscriptions to his mother and sister Blanchot offers himself in all his fragility and reveals an intimacy hitherto unknown. Handsome copy with full margins perfectly established. Gallimard hardcover‎

Referencia librero : 44662

‎Maurice BLANCHOT‎

‎Journal sans épisodes. Manuscrit autographe et tapuscrit complets‎

‎s. l. Paris: S. n. Journal des débats 1944. Fine. S. n. Journal des débats s. l. • Paris s. d. 1944 13.50 x 21.50 cm 2 1/2 pages in-8 Autograph manuscript by the author of 2½ pages in-8 published in the February 10 1944 issue of Journal des Débats. Complete manuscript with very dense handwriting containing numerous deletions corrections and additions. Literary chronicle published on the occasion of the publication of Jean Dumay's ""Journal de guerre"". The complete typescript is included. Between April 1941 and August 1944 Maurice Blanchot published 173 articles on recently published books in the ""Chronique de la vie intellectuelle"" of Journal des Débats. In half a newspaper page approximately seven pages in-8 the young author of ""Thomas l'obscur"" takes his first steps in the field of literary criticism and thus inaugurates a theoretical work that he would later develop in his numerous essays from ""La Part du feu"" to ""L'Entretien infini"" and ""L'Écriture du désastre"". From the first articles Blanchot demonstrates an analytical acuity far exceeding the literary news that motivates their writing. Oscillating between classics and moderns first-rate writers and minor novelists he establishes in his chronicles the foundations of critical thought that would mark the second half of the 20th century. Transformed by writing and by war Blanchot breaks through a thought exercised ""in the name of the other"" with the violent Maurrassian certainties of his youth. Not without paradox he then transforms literary criticism into a philosophical act of intellectual resistance to barbarism at the very heart of an ""openly Maréchaliste"" newspaper: ""Brûler un livre en écrire sont les deux actes entre lesquels la culture inscrit ses oscillations contraires"" ""To burn a book to write one are the two acts between which culture inscribes its contrary oscillations"" Le Livre In Journal des Débats January 20 1943. In 2007 the Cahiers de la NRF brought together under the direction of Christophe Bident all the literary chronicles not yet published in volumes with this pertinent analysis of Blanchot's critical work: ""romans poèmes essais donnent lieu à une réflexion singulière toujours plus sûre de sa propre rhétorique livrée davantage à l'écho de l'impossible ou aux sirènes de la disparition. . Non sans contradictions ni pas de côté et dans la certitude fiévreuse d'une œuvre qui commence . ces articles révèlent la généalogie d'un critique qui a transformé l'occasion de la chronique en nécessité de la pensée."" ""novels poems essays give rise to a singular reflection ever more sure of its own rhetoric delivered more to the echo of the impossible or to the sirens of disappearance. . Not without contradictions or sidesteps and in the feverish certainty of a work that begins . these articles reveal the genealogy of a critic who transformed the occasion of the chronicle into necessity of thought."" C. Bident. Autograph manuscripts by Maurice Blanchot are extremely rare. S. n.[ Journal des débats] unknown‎

Referencia librero : 44947

‎Maurice BLANCHOT‎

‎L'attente l'oubli‎

‎Paris: Gallimard 1962. Fine. Gallimard Paris 1962 12 x 19 cm broché First edition one of 30 numbered copies on pur fil the only large paper copies. A very good copy. Gallimard unknown‎

Referencia librero : 45580

‎Maurice BLANCHOT - (Marcel PROUST)‎

‎L'expérience de Proust. Manuscrit autographe complet • The Proust Experience. Complete Autograph Manuscript‎

‎1943. Fine. 1943 21 x 13 cm en feuilles 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. unknown‎

Referencia librero : 48328

‎Maurice BLANCHOT‎

‎La bête de Lascaux • The Beast of Lascaux‎

‎Paris: GLM 1958. Fine. GLM Paris 1958 12 x 18.50 cm broché First edition one of 48 numbered copies on Hollande tirage de tête. A tiny tear not serious to foot of upper cover. A rare and very good copy. GLM unknown‎

Referencia librero : 48048

‎Maurice BLANCHOT - Robert BRASILLACH‎

‎La fin du 6 février in Combat n°2 de la première année‎

‎Paris: in Combat 1936. Fine. in Combat Paris février 1936 21.50 x 28.50 cm agrafé First and only edition of this pamphlet published in the review Combat directed by Thierry Maulnier. Other contributions: Robert Brasillach Ce qui est perdu Thierry Maulnier Pierre Andreu. Very rare document bearing witness to the anti-democratic period of the young Maurice Blanchot. Vertical fold inherent to the distribution of this review. in Combat unknown‎

Referencia librero : 56072

‎Maurice BLANCHOT - Robert BRASILLACH‎

‎La grande passion des modérés in Combat n°9 de la première année‎

‎Paris: in Combat 1936. Fine. in Combat Paris novembre 1936 21.50 x 28.50 cm agrafé First and only edition of this pamphlet published in the review Combat directed by Thierry Maulnier. Other contributions: Robert Brasillach La machine à botter les culs Thierry Maulnier Georges Blond. Very rare document witnessing the anti-democratic period of young Maurice Blanchot. Vertical fold inherent to the distribution of this review with tear without loss at foot of same. in Combat unknown‎

Referencia librero : 56073

‎Maurice BLOCK‎

‎La politique économique en Allemagne. Extrait de la Revue des Deux Mondes‎

‎s. l. Paris: Extrait de La Revue des deux mondes 1884. Fine. Extrait de La Revue des deux mondes s. l. • Paris 1884 15.50 x 25 cm agrafé First edition. Plain paper cover. Rare. Extrait de La Revue des deux mondes unknown‎

Referencia librero : 15701

‎Maurice BLANCHOT‎

‎Le baron d'Holbach. Manuscrit autographe et tapuscrit complets • Baron d'Holbach. Complete autograph manuscript and typescript‎

‎s. l. Paris: S. n. Journal des débats 1943. Fine. S. n. Journal des débats s. l. • Paris s. d. 1943 13.50 x 21.50 cm 4 1/2 pages in-8 Autograph manuscript by the author of 4½ pages in quarto published in the November 27-28 1943 issue of Journal des Débats. Complete manuscript with very dense handwriting containing numerous deletions corrections and additions. Literary chronicle published on the occasion of the publication of Paul Thiry d'Holbach et la philosophie scientifique au XVIIIe siècle by Pierre Naville. The complete typescript is included. Far more than a critique of Pierre Naville's work on Baron d'Holbach this long article by Blanchot is a veritable philosophical pamphlet against the materialist thought of the Encyclopedists whom he accuses of wanting to « know the world in order to seize it. This is a notable expression of the bourgeois spirit. . Man can only dominate the world if the world is a collection of objects. » But through this virulent critique of 18th-century thought Blanchot identifies a more modern evil: « To make man a thing that can be studied . is to ensure that he can be used as a thing and exploited as a thing. All the social contradictions of liberalism are already in this assertion. And its starting point is the Encyclopedia. » Between April 1941 and August 1944 Maurice Blanchot published 173 articles on recently published books in the ""Chronicle of Intellectual Life"" of Journal des Débats. In half a page of the newspaper approximately seven octavo pages the young author of ""Thomas l'obscur"" took his first steps in the field of literary criticism and thus inaugurated a theoretical work that he would later develop in his numerous essays from ""La Part du feu"" to ""L'Entretien infini"" and ""L'Écriture du désastre"". From the very first articles Blanchot demonstrated an analytical acuity that far exceeded the literary current events that motivated their writing. Oscillating between classics and moderns first-rate writers and minor novelists he laid in his chronicles the foundations of a critical thought that would mark the second half of the 20th century. Transformed by writing and by war Blanchot broke through a thought exercised ""in the name of the other"" with the violent Maurrassian certainties of his youth. Not without paradox he then transformed literary criticism into a philosophical act of intellectual resistance to barbarity at the very heart of an ""openly Maréchal-supporting"" newspaper: ""To burn a book to write one are the two acts between which culture inscribes its contrary oscillations"" Le Livre In Journal des Débats January 20 1943. In 2007 the Cahiers de la NRF brought together under the direction of Christophe Bident all the literary chronicles not yet published in volumes with this pertinent analysis of Blanchot's critical work: ""novels poems essays give rise to a singular reflection increasingly confident in its own rhetoric more given over to the echo of the impossible or to the sirens of disappearance. . Not without contradictions or sidesteps and in the feverish certainty of a work that begins . these articles reveal the genealogy of a critic who transformed the occasion of the chronicle into the necessity of thought."" C. Bident. Autograph manuscripts by Maurice Blanchot are extremely rare. S. n.[ Journal des débats] unknown‎

Referencia librero : 44967

‎Maurice BLANCHOT‎

‎Le dernier homme‎

‎Paris: Gallimard 1957. Fine. Gallimard Paris 1957 12 x 19 cm broché First edition one of 30 numbered copies on pur fil paper the only deluxe copies. Very handsome copy. Gallimard unknown‎

Referencia librero : 84248

‎Maurice BLANCHOT - (Jean GIRAUDOUX)‎

‎Le mythe de Giraudoux. Manuscrit autographe et tapuscrit complets.‎

‎s. l. Paris: S. n. Paysage dimanche 1945. Fine. S. n. Paysage dimanche s. l. • Paris s. d. 1945 11.50 x 22 cm 3 pages in-4 Autograph manuscript by the author 3 quarto pages published in issue 17 of October 7 1945 of the newspaper Le Paysage Dimanche. Complete manuscript in very dense handwriting with numerous deletions corrections and additions. Chronicle published on the occasion of the numerous studies on Giraudoux's work that appeared since his death in January 1944. The complete typescript is included. While the numerous references to his work in the articles of the Journal des Débats reveal Giraudoux's ascendancy over Blanchot the latter nevertheless manifests a clear desire to free himself from this paternity. Thus he removes from Faux-Pas numerous references to Giraudoux's work cf C. Bident M. B. De la chronique à la théorisation. This article published in 1945 is a unique testimony to the ambivalence of feelings toward an admired master who could no longer serve as a model for his disciple transformed by writing and war. ""Certes un auteur comme celui de Judith ne peut pas être un auteur de tout repos mais ce qu'il a créé est beau et ce beau n'est pas ""ce qui nous désespère"". Il est trop facile de voir que quoi qu'il veuille il ne va jamais jusqu'à compromettre en son art l'harmonie la compréhension la mesure. Comme une malédiction jetée sur la réalité inaccessible il formerait un monde entièrement faux Mais pas si faux: nous n'y perdons pas pied nous ne cessons de nous y reconnaitre et au contraire pour certains comme Sartre c'est celui de la banalité même des concepts de chaque jour."" ""Certainly an author like the one who wrote Judith cannot be a restful author but what he has created is beautiful and this beauty is not 'what drives us to despair'. It is too easy to see that whatever he may wish he never goes so far as to compromise in his art harmony understanding measure. Like a curse cast upon inaccessible reality would he form an entirely false world But not so false: we do not lose our footing there we never cease to recognize ourselves in it and on the contrary for some like Sartre it is that of the very banality of everyday concepts."" Between April 1941 and August 1944 Maurice Blanchot published 173 articles on recently published books in the ""Chronicle of intellectual life"" of the Journal des Débats. In half a newspaper page approximately seven octavo pages the young author of ""Thomas l'obscur"" took his first steps in the field of literary criticism and thus inaugurated a theoretical work that he would later develop in his numerous essays from ""La Part du feu"" to ""L'Entretien infini"" and ""L'Écriture du désastre"". From the first articles Blanchot demonstrated an analytical acuity far exceeding the literary current events that motivated their writing. Oscillating between classics and moderns first-rate writers and minor novelists he established in his chronicles the foundations of critical thinking that would mark the second half of the 20th century. Transformed by writing and by war Blanchot broke through a thought exercised ""in the name of the other"" with the violent Maurrassian certainties of his youth. Not without paradox he then transformed literary criticism into a philosophical act of intellectual resistance to barbarism at the very heart of an ""openly Maréchaliste"" newspaper: ""Burning a book writing one are the two acts between which culture inscribes its contrary oscillations"" Le Livre In Journal des Débats January 20 1943. In 2007 the Cahiers de la NRF brought together under the direction of Christophe Bident all the literary chronicles not yet published in volumes with this pertinent analysis of Blanchot's critical work: ""novels poems essays give rise to a singular reflection ever more confident in its own rhetoric delivered more to the echo of the impossible or to the sirens of disappearance. . Not without contradictions or sidesteps and in the feverish certainty of a S. n.[ Paysage dimanche] unknown‎

Referencia librero : 44924

‎Maurice BLANCHOT‎

‎Le pas au-delÃ‎

‎Paris: Gallimard 1973. Fine. Gallimard Paris 1973 14 x 20.50 cm broché First edition an advance service de presse copy. Very handsome and moving autograph inscription signed by Maurice Blanchot to his sister on a calling card pasted to head of one endpaper: ""A ma chère Marg. Ce livre d'amitié et pour l'amitié plus à feuilleter qu'à lire peut-être avec ma grande affection. Maurice To my dear sister Marg. This book of friendship or book for friendship maybe more to leaf through than to read with great affection. Maurice."" A good copy. Gallimard unknown‎

Referencia librero : 52429

‎Maurice BLANCHOT‎

‎Le ressassement éternel‎

‎Paris: Les Editions de Minuit 1951. Fine. Les Editions de Minuit Paris 1951 11.50 x 18.50 cm relié First edition one of 990 copies on Ghaldwill the only deluxe copies after 10 on pur fil. Half blue morocco binding smooth spine gilt date at foot covers with marbled paper blue paper endpapers and pastedowns original wrappers and spine preserved spine slightly sunned with small filled losses top edge gilt binding signed by Goy & Vilaine. Exceptional and moving signed autograph inscription from Maurice Blanchot to his mother and sister: ""Pour vous mes très chères ces pages hélas bien anciennes en toute affection. Maurice. / Mais avant le commencement il y a le recommencement qui fait de la lumière une fascination de toute chose une image et de nous le coeur vide du ressassement éternel"" ""For you my very dear ones these pages alas quite old with all my affection. Maurice. / But before the beginning there is the re-beginning which makes light a fascination everything an image and us the empty heart of eternal rehearsal"". Half-title page bearing the inscription very slightly and marginally shaded. Marguerite Blanchot renowned organist at Chalon cathedral remained all her life in the family home with her mother and aunt. ""She gradually became 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 disabled mother. While Blanchot's intense affection for his mother and sister shows through in his dedications we know almost nothing of their relationships. In the only biographical essay on Blanchot Christophe Bident reveals however: ""Marguerite Blanchot venerated her brother Maurice. Very proud of him . she attached great importance to his political ideas . She read extensively . They telephoned each other corresponded. From 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. As for Blanchot's passion for his mother it is in the course of his work that we discover the most beautiful testimonies: ""Perhaps the power of the maternal figure borrows its brilliance from the very power of fascination and one could say that if the Mother exercises this fascinating attraction it is because appearing when the child lives entirely under the gaze of fascination she concentrates in herself all the powers of enchantment"". Cultivating absolute discretion Blanchot pushed the art of effacement even into his manuscript dedications generally succinct and written almost systematically on cards attached to the rare works he offered to his close friends. In contrast in these precious inscriptions to his mother and sister Blanchot offers himself in all his fragility and reveals a hitherto unknown intimacy. Fine copy perfectly established. Les Editions de Minuit unknown‎

Referencia librero : 44768

‎Maurice BLANCHOT - (Horace WALPOLE) - Paul ELUARD‎

‎Le roman noir - Manuscrit autographe et tapuscrit complets • he Noir Novel – Complete Autograph Manuscript and Typescript‎

‎s. l. Paris: S. n. Journal des débats 1944. Fine. S. n. Journal des débats s. l. • Paris 1944 13.50 x 21 cm 2 pages 1/2 in-4 Autograph manuscript by the author 2½ pages in-8 published in the issue of 30 March 1944 of the Journal des Débats. Complete recto-verso manuscript in very dense handwriting containing numerous deletions corrections and additions. This is a review published on the occasion of the reissue of Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto with a preface by Paul Eluard. Accompanied by the complete typescript. The reissue by Éditions José Corti of Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto with a preface by Paul Eluard offered Maurice Blanchot the opportunity to set out his definition of the Gothic novel which thanks notably to the Surrealists was then enjoying a revival of interest: ""Le roman noir ne se confond pas simplement avec la littérature fantastique. S'il fait une large part au merveilleux ""de toute nature"" il a pour principal objet d'émouvoir la sensibilité par les ressources de la terreur. il veut secouer l'imagination. Il l'entraîne dans un mouvement frénétique qui ne lui laisse pas de repos. Il la provoque à tout croire hormis les dénouements heureux et les compromis agréables par des moyens dont le caractère conventionnel augmente encore la puissance. C'est un art méthodique qui connaît sa grossiéreté et en tire souvent des effets subtils et remarquables."" Blanchot then pursues an almost political analysis of the Gothic novel—born in the age of pre-revolutionary rationalism flourishing in the wake of 1789 before flagging under the Restoration. And he concludes: ""Horace Walpole est beaucoup plus qu'un précurseur. Avec ce volume fort mince il apparait vraiment comme l'auteur de milliers d'ouvrages qui sont nés de lui. Avec ce volume fort mince sic il est le plus fécond des écrivains."" Between April 1941 and August 1944 Maurice Blanchot published in the ""Chronique de la vie intellectuelle"" of the Journal des Débats 173 articles on recently published books. In a half-page of newspaper approximately seven in-8 pages the young author of Thomas l'obscur took his first steps in the field of literary criticism inaugurating a body of theoretical work that he would later develop in his numerous essays from La Part du feu to L'Entretien infini and L'Écriture du désastre. From the very first articles Blanchot demonstrated an acuity of analysis far surpassing the literary news that occasioned their writing. Oscillating between classics and moderns major writers and minor novelists he laid down in his columns the foundations of a critical thought that would shape the second half of the twentieth century. Transformed by writing and by the war Blanchot gradually broke in the exercise of a thought developed ""in the name of the other"" with the violent certainties of his youthful adherence to Maurras. Not without paradox he thus transformed literary criticism into a philosophical act of intellectual resistance to barbarism at the very heart of a newspaper that was ""openly maréchaliste"": ""Brûler un livre en écrire sont les deux actes entre lesquels la culture inscrit ses oscillations contraires"" ""Le livre"" in Journal des Débats 20 January 1943. In 2007 the Cahiers de la NRF under the direction of Christophe Bident brought together all the literary columns not yet published in volumes accompanied by a pertinent analysis of Blanchot’s critical work: ""romans poèmes essais donnent lieu à une réflexion singulière toujours plus sûre de sa propre rhétorique livrée davantage à l'écho de l'impossible ou aux sirènes de la disparition. . Non sans contradictions ni pas de côté et dans la certitude fiévreuse d'une uvre qui commence . ces articles révèlent la généalogie d'un critique qui a transformé l'occasion de la chronique en nécessité de la pensée."" C. Bident. Maurice Blanchot’s autograph manuscripts are of the utmost rarity. S. n.[ Journal des débats] unknown‎

Referencia librero : 83783

‎Maurice BLANCHOT‎

‎Les intellectuels en question - In Le journal des débats N°29‎

‎Paris: Le journal des débats 1984. Fine. Le journal des débats Paris Mars 1984 18.50 x 26.50 cm agrafé The first edition published in a small number of copies of which there were no deluxe copies of this offprint from Pierre Nora's review Le Débat. Precious signed autograph inscription from Maurice Blanchot to his sister "". for you this little reading and to help you regain courage"". Marguerite Blanchot 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 relationships. In the only biographical essay on Blanchot Christophe Bident reveals however: ""Marguerite Blanchot venerated 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. As for Blanchot's passion for his mother it is in the margins of his work that we discover the most beautiful testimonies: ""Perhaps the power of the maternal figure borrows its radiance from the very power of fascination and one could say that if the Mother exerts this fascinating attraction it is because appearing when the child lives entirely under the gaze of fascination she concentrates in herself all the powers of enchantment"". Cultivating absolute discretion Blanchot pushed the art of self-effacement even into his manuscript dedications generally succinct and written almost systematically on cards attached to the rare works he offered to his close friends. In contrast in these precious inscriptions to his mother and sister Blanchot reveals himself in all his fragility and in the intimacy of this correspondence casts a personal glance on his work hitherto unknown. A small tear at the head of the spine. Le journal des débats unknown‎

Referencia librero : 44456

‎Maurice BLANCHOT‎

‎Les plaintes de l'ombre. Manuscrit autographe et tapuscrit complets.‎

‎s. l. Paris: S. n. Journal des débats 1943. Fine. S. n. Journal des débats s. l. • Paris s. d. 1943 13.50 x 21.50 cm 2 1/2 pages in-8 Autograph manuscript by the author 2½ pages octavo published in the December 10 1943 issue of the Journal des Débats. Complete manuscript in very dense handwriting with numerous deletions corrections and additions. Literary chronicle published on the occasion of the publication of Passage de l'homme by Marius Grout winner of the 1943 Prix Goncourt. Accompanied by the complete typescript. Blanchot's critique of this future Prix Goncourt winner is not gentle although he perfectly grasps its stakes. This story whose tragic unfolding ends in a deception that creates a new faith contains for Blanchot an equivocal moral. ""We understand what Marius Grout seeks to show; that men cannot live without a dream of transcendence that miracle has no need of truth . But . if men need to live an ideal that is a fable the question arises of knowing whether after all men need to live."" The question would be pure rhetoric for a modern novel but in 1943 ""the writer who accepts to treat themes where man's destiny is at stake . puts himself at stake he bets himself; if he loses he loses himself."" Between April 1941 and August 1944 Maurice Blanchot published 173 articles on recently published books in the ""Chronicle of Intellectual Life"" of the Journal des Débats. In half a page of newspaper approximately seven octavo pages the young author of ""Thomas l'obscur"" takes his first steps in the field of literary criticism and thus inaugurates a theoretical work that he would later develop in his numerous essays from ""La Part du feu"" to ""L'Entretien infini"" and ""L'Écriture du désastre."" From the first articles Blanchot demonstrates an analytical acuity far exceeding the literary current events that motivate their writing. Oscillating between classics and moderns first-rate writers and minor novelists he establishes in his chronicles the foundations of a critical thought that would mark the second half of the 20th century. Transformed by writing and by war Blanchot breaks through a thought exercised ""in the name of the other"" with the violent Maurrassian certainties of his youth. Not without paradox he then transforms literary criticism into a philosophical act of intellectual resistance to barbarism at the very heart of an ""openly Maréchaliste"" newspaper: ""To burn a book to write one are the two acts between which culture inscribes its contrary oscillations"" Le Livre In Journal des Débats January 20 1943. In 2007 the Cahiers de la NRF gathered under the direction of Christophe Bident all the literary chronicles not yet published in volumes with this pertinent analysis of Blanchot's critical work: ""novels poems essays give rise to a singular reflection always more sure of its own rhetoric delivered more to the echo of the impossible or to the sirens of disappearance. . Not without contradictions or sidesteps and in the feverish certainty of a work that begins . these articles reveal the genealogy of a critic who transformed the occasion of the chronicle into the necessity of thought."" C. Bident. Autograph manuscripts by Maurice Blanchot are extremely rare. S. n.[ Journal des débats] unknown‎

Referencia librero : 44951