The Sirens’ Song Lars Iyer�s latest essay Blanc…
The Sirens’ Song
Lars Iyer�s latest essay Blanchot, Narration and the Event, found via wood s lot, is worthy of more than the cursory attention that long, difficult pieces often get online. (See also his excellent The Birth of Philosophy in Poetry). After all they’re difficult to read in the best of circumstances, which the net isn’t.
The essay will interest anyone with a serious concern for writing. That is, writing how Blanchot conceives it: a search for, in Iyer�s words, �the grandest tale of them all - the tale that is told in the elaboration of any tale�. He focuses on Blanchot�s reconfiguring of the myth of Odysseus and the Sirens in Homer�s Odyssey.
This reminds me of a line from the afterword to a collection of Blanchot essays in which the author says that for Blanchot �our greatest stories, our deepest myths, are allegories of the textual confrontations we habitually avoid�. Blanchot�s odyssey is the greatest of our time. Don�t avoid a confrontation.
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