Mikel DUFRENNE (1910-1995), philosophe de l'esthétique... Lot n° 27

L.A.S. à Max Bilen, 1 p. ½ in-8, header of the University of Paris X Nanterre. Response to the sending of Max Bilen's book Dialectique créatrice et structure de l'oeuvre littéraire (1971). "The theme of separation - or of birth - is at the heart of the problems I am asking myself, and you are helping me to pose it. I find it in your essay on Valéry [...]. But I believe that this detachment is implied by knowledge rather than by creation: the poet must go through this (?), but it seems to me that he renounces nudity, precisely in order to commune, to lose himself, to renounce autonomy for inspiration: the stripping is only a moment [...]". He then addresses the question of style. We enclose the programme of a colloquium on "Paul Valéry and Contemporary Thought", in which they took part (3 copies).