“Sublime, necessarily sublime…” Marguerite Duras and Maurice Blanchot about Louis-René des Forêts: Sublime, Music, Childhood

Friends who shared the same political ideal, Duras, Blanchot and des Forêts also shared a friendship springing from similar esthetic ideals. Starting from a brief look at questions raised by Duras in “Sublime, forcément sublime”, and considering the concepts of Lyotard’s sublime and Blanchot’s “le neutre”, this essay analyzes links between the three authors where the sublime, childhood, and music govern literary spaces in an essential rapport with lived experience.