tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1236603983133336864.post8261801252702601680..comments2023-04-16T00:37:24.830-07:00Comments on Zoo, or Letters not about Love: collaborateErin Trapphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03472590835245430294noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1236603983133336864.post-89949340000373117132010-12-13T18:05:33.671-08:002010-12-13T18:05:33.671-08:00Some attempts to be other than resentful (some mor...Some attempts to be other than resentful (some more convincing than others):<br /><br />de Man, glossing Heidegger: "To preserve the work is simply to listen to it, in all passivity, knowing that it is uniquely and absolutely true. Borrowing an image from Holderlin, Heidegger compares the work to a bell; the commentator causes it to resound (Erlauterung: interpretation, commentary includes lauten, to sound, peal); he makes us hear what it holds wholly by itself, as when snow falls on the bell."<br /><br />Blanchot: "the act of reading does not change anything, nor does it add anything to what was already there: it lets things be the way they were; it is a form of freedom,not the freedom that gives or takes away, but a freedom that accepts and consents, that says yes. It can only say yes, and, in the space opened up by this affirmation, it allows the work to assert itself as the unsettled decision of its will to be--and nothing more."<br /><br />These make me understand the resentment...<br /><br />Barthes:<br /><br />"The critic...can in the last resort have recourse only to writing which is fully writing, that is to say assertive writing. It is pointless to claim to avoid the act of starting things off which underlies all writing by protestations of modesty, doubt, or prudence...writing declares, that is what makes it writing....Thus 'approaching' a text, not with one's eyes, but with writing, creates an abyss between criticism and reading....Only reading loves the work, entertains it with a relationship of desire. To read is to desire the work, to want to be the work, to refuse to echo the work using any discourse other than that of the work....To go from reading to criticism is to change desires, it is no longer to desire the work but to desire one's own language." (*Criticism & Truth*)RThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04486972270932294981noreply@blogger.com