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"Herodias," or the Self-Annihilation of the Absolute Work

This Blackmurian example of gesture in language (Blackmur 4) oddly also seems to describe the response of literary criticism to Flaubert's "Herodias," for critics have understood the fury of Saint John's oracle-an annihilation moving from Isaiah to the Apocalypse, from the Old to the New Testament'-yet not the words; they have understood the role of this fury in the transition to the transfigured world of the Messiah, yet they have insisted, as Flaubert in his letters (Extraits 275), on the excessive number of ellipses in the explicative background of this work (Robertson 111), on its obscurity or unreadability-"le conte est obscur, parce qu'il doit traiter de l'obscurite" (Debray-Genette 201)2-going as far as to see it as an