Maurice Blanchot

Maurice Blanchot (September 27, 1907-February 20, 2003) was a French philosopher, literary theorist and writer of fiction. His influence on later post-structuralist theorists such as Jacques Derrida is difficult to overestimate. It would be wrong to speak of Blanchot's work in terms of a coherent, all-encompassing 'theory', since it is a work founded on paradox and impossibility. If there is a thread running through all his writing, it is the constant engagement with the 'question of literature', a simultaneous enactment and interrogation of the profoundly strange experience of writing. For Blanchot, 'literature begins at the moment when literature becomes a question' (Literature and the Right to Death).

External links

• Espace Maurice Blanchot
• Timothy Clark: Literary Encyclopedia Entry
• Studio Cleo
• Stephen Mitchelmore: The Absent Voice
• Lars Iyer: The City and the Stars
• Lars Iyer: Our Responsibility: Blanchot's Communism
• Will Large: Blanchot: The, the Neuter
• Confronting the Disaster
• Beatitude: Blanchot and Death