“VIENS!”: ON MAURICE BLANCHOT’S PRAYERS AND PROMISES
“VIENS!”: ON MAURICE BLANCHOT’S PRAYERS AND PROMISES

Summary/Abstract: The essay attempts to explore a highly controversial issue, that of MauriceBlanchot’s alleged atheism, and partially contradict it. Starting form Caputo’s proposal to lookfor Derrida’s prayers and tears, and investigating several Blanchotian récits, it similarly andpersistently asks the Augustinian question on the French philosopher and literary theorist: “whatdo I love when I love my God?”. My aim is to find out who Blanchot’s God was and such a criticalanalysis resorts to a threefold structure based on one of Blanchot’s keywords (viens!- come), onwhat I tentatively called prière (prayer, praying, begging), and a final promesse (promise).

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