« Le refus » et « Le grand refus » : trajectoire d’un geste critique chez Maurice Blanchot
« Le refus » and « Le grand refus » : the trajectory of a critical gesture in Maurice Blanchot thought

Summary/Abstract: In « Le refus », written by Maurice Blanchot in October 1958, there's an exigence of conceiving an unsubmissive principle of a political and literary gesture. First published in 1958 in the anti-Gaullist journal Le 14-Juillet, founded by Dionys Mascolo and Jean Schuster, and later, in 1971, in L’Amitié, Blanchot’s text sketches the features of this specific figure of le refus. The following year, Blanchot wrote « Le grand refus » in the Nouvelle Revue Française (1959), which would later become a chapter of L’Entretien infini (1969), ten years later. The figure of « le refus » now generates a kind of doubling of the first text, indirectly recalling it in order to make explicit its conceptual grounding. This article analyses the political and literary inscription of Blanchot’s « le refus » of 1958, linking it to its conceptual foundation, made explicit in “Le grand refus” of 1959, through theoretical developments in Blanchot’s thought.

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