Obscure words: a hermenutic reading of a fragment of "Thomas l'Obscur", by Maurice Blanchot

Authors

  • Etna Miró Universitat de Barcelona

Keywords:

Blanchot, Heidegger, Thomas l'Obscur, hermeneutics, reading

Abstract

This article is a hermeneutic reading of an extremely significant fragment of Maurice Blanchot's first novel, Thomas l'Obscur (1941). Through hermeneutics we enter into a revealing passage that allows us to approach the apprehension of the chiaroscuro that draws this work of Blanchot. The ambiguous play of light projected is a faithful anticipation of Blanchot's literary theory. Starting from Martin Heidegger's conceptions of the hermeneutic task that the Being is called upon to develop in order to become itself, we read the fragment analyzed as a literary rewriting of Heideggerian ideas that, overflowing philosophy, links Heidegger's idea of existence with the way in which literature carries out the awakening of the Being.

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Se trata de una reflexión filosófica que parte de Heidegger para superar precisamente la filosofía, que aún hace de la hermenéutica de la facticidad una disciplina poco fáctica. Nos encontramos, por tanto, ante toda una nueva ontología en la que salta a la palestra ya no el concepto de existencia, sino el de lectura de la existencia, lo cual permite englobar la totalidad concreta del Ser en el nuevo giro literario de la filosofía hermenéutica. Nos hallamos, en suma, ante una ontología literaria en la que la respuesta a la pregunta del Ser mora en la literatura, razón por la cual lo esencial es poder leerla.

Published

2024-07-09

How to Cite

Miró, E. (2024). Obscure words: a hermenutic reading of a fragment of "Thomas l’Obscur", by Maurice Blanchot. Tropelías: Review of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature, (42), 283–300. Retrieved from https://papiro.unizar.es/ojs/index.php/tropelias/article/view/10051

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Papers
Received 2024-01-06
Accepted 2024-05-20
Published 2024-07-09