Le corps à l’épreuve de l’image : moulage et photographie chez Maurice Blanchot

Abstract

I aim to examine the relation between body and image in Maurice Blanchot’s Death Sentence and The Most High . I will limit my analysis to two forms of image: molding and photography. I will touch briefly on the significations of molding in the context of the history of art and demonstrate how, in Death Sentence , molding transforms human body into a haunting subject and an erotic object at the same time. Then