BLANCHOT Maurice. - Lot 68

BLANCHOT Maurice. 19 AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED to Mathieu BÉNÉZET. Le Mesnil Saint Denis, 1976-1978, 19 pages in-4 and in-12, 12 envelopes preserved. Beautiful, affectionate and literary correspondence from Maurice Blanchot to Mathieu Bénézet. ... I have received a great deal from you in the necessary poverty. I wanted to tell you even if telling belongs to silence, that unheard murmur that a closed mouth lets us hear without being allowed to interpret it. Friendship is a word of disaster, not an unhappy word, but a word without happiness, without unhappiness, which the light of the star no longer illuminates and which points to an infinity, foreign to both the spirit and the liberal space where we believe we live and die. In this friendship you will find neither help nor comfort, but the ever-fading trace of the distant and the near, our common companion... ... Thank you for keeping in touch with me in friendship. Do you know these texts by Schelling (quoted by Heidegger) the one who alone has reached the depths of himself and has taken in all the depths of the night, who one day abandoned everything and was abandoned by all, for whom everything sank and who saw himself alone with the infinite... ... Our nights say it, and the cheerful torment of your book says it too: learn to think with pain... .