Interpretation Put to the Test of Listening : Reading Voice, Lyricism of Criticism in the Work of Maurice Blanchot
The lyricism of criticism — and this is the hypothesis I would like to unfold — would emerge from the open conduct of a reading, a kind of listening to a work in which the self would ricochet, not to make a spectacle of itself, but to vibrate and amplify the singularity of an interpretation as a “disposition of resonance.” This sensitive engagement of thought would be a corollary of the revolution, at the heart of the 1950-70s, of the ways of considering writing, thought, and reading practices. More particularly, the lyrical temptation of criticism — at a time when structuralism, in a “sudden convergence of the literary space and the scientific work,” was signaling the impersonality of its language — would answer of a subject more than ever in defect of consistency, recapturing itself in the relics, the traces of a committed sensibility, for lack of being incarnated in an established identity.