Thursday September 23, 2010 at 17:47
“[I]t was in the nature of Blanchot’s argument to resist summary. The experience of reading had to take place moment by moment; one’s understanding proceeded like a guide’s flashlight, illuminating one by one the animals painted on the wall of an ancient cave.”
— Lydia Davis, ‘The Problem in Summarizing Blanchot’ in Proust, Blanchot and a Woman in Red, 2007, Slyph Editions, 31 (via tracesoftraces)
This post was reblogged from After Thales.
