tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19327517.post2709399029144164231..comments2024-03-02T09:07:39.781+00:00Comments on Serge Daney in English: The "Berri affair" 2: UranusUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19327517.post-71913107812703538612014-01-21T22:57:10.681+00:002014-01-21T22:57:10.681+00:00I failed to mention the resemblance between the fi...I failed to mention the resemblance between the first paragraph of the text and the beginning of Jacques Rivette's "<a href="http://www.dvdbeaver.com/rivette/ok/abjection.html" rel="nofollow">Abjection</a>" article, which was so influential for Daney, and begins with:<br /><br /><i>"The least that one can say is that it's difficult, when one takes on a film on such a subject (the concentration camps), not to ask oneself certain preliminary questions; yet everything happens as though, due to incoherence, inanity, or cowardice, Pontecorvo resolutely neglected to ask them."</i><br /><br />I read it as a sign that Daney wasn't writing any other review but was very conscious that this was a major text, although perhaps not anticipating the violence of the response.LKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01294795185008017633noreply@blogger.com