This paper aims at problematizing the issue of the “everyday life” in Blanchot’s thought, especially by focusing on his great essay La parole quotidienne (The Everyday Speech, 1962). According to Blanchot, the essential trait of the Everyday lies in its power to escape significance. This means above all that the structural ambiguity of the Everyday belongs to the category of limit-experiences, which are foreign to dialectics. The fundamental questions that this paper intends to discuss are as follows: to what extent and in which way everyday speech and everyday life are linked to politics (l’homme de la rue), to atheism (indifference to religion and to any order), and, above all, to literature? Moreover: what kind of literature (assuming there is one) can represent an aesthetic equivalent of the experience of chatter (bavardage) and cry (cri)? Does the possibility of such an equivalence even exist?

La strada, l’ateismo, la letteratura. Maurice Blanchot di fronte all’enigma del quotidiano

Paolo Zublena
2018-01-01

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This paper aims at problematizing the issue of the “everyday life” in Blanchot’s thought, especially by focusing on his great essay La parole quotidienne (The Everyday Speech, 1962). According to Blanchot, the essential trait of the Everyday lies in its power to escape significance. This means above all that the structural ambiguity of the Everyday belongs to the category of limit-experiences, which are foreign to dialectics. The fundamental questions that this paper intends to discuss are as follows: to what extent and in which way everyday speech and everyday life are linked to politics (l’homme de la rue), to atheism (indifference to religion and to any order), and, above all, to literature? Moreover: what kind of literature (assuming there is one) can represent an aesthetic equivalent of the experience of chatter (bavardage) and cry (cri)? Does the possibility of such an equivalence even exist?
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