Date: Mon, 06 Feb 1995 18:03:01 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: MB: Friendship (bis)


I've just read Blanchot's latest book (19 short pages), L'instance de ma mort,
and it's relevant to the question of Blanchot's not pre- but during-the-war
politics.  Apparently autobiographical, it tells the story of a young man's
almost being shot in reprisal for resistance activity, with which he is
involved.  He escapes, by a fluke, but then he doesn't escape either--from
then on his life is the instance of death.  Blanchot says, or all but says,
that he ("he") was that young man.  Anyhow, I thought it was pretty great.
Fata Morgana, 1994.

William Flesch