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the Outside of
Literature

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Literature
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In a sense, and to express myself very simply, that which
has made ‘me’ write is the thought (and the anxiety) of
impossible death, the silent clash of death as finitude,
as power, and the infinity of dying, the eternity of
that through which time risks abolishing itself.
Maurice Blanchot to Pierre Madaule, 2 March 1981

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 CONTENTS

Acknowledgements ix
Abbreviations xi

Introduction: The two slopes 1

PART ONE: Contingency and contagion

1 Black water 23

2 Sickness in words 47

3 The right to death 71

PART TWO: The aporetic imperative

4 The absolute milieu 95

5 Unmade in its image 123

6 White noise 143

7 To articulate the void 159

Afterword 177

Notes 189
Index 215

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 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Some of these chapters have appeared elsewhere in earlier forms: Chapter 4

appeared as ‘The Absolute Milieu: Blanchot’s Aesthetics of Melancholy’,
Research in Phenomenology 45.1 (2015): 53–86; Chapter 5 appeared as
‘Unmade in its Image: The Spacing of the Sentence and the Exposure of
Thought in Blanchot’, Textual Practice (2016); Chapter 6 appeared as
‘White Noise, Écriture Blanche’, Angelaki (2018), special issue on Sonic
Encounters with Blanchot; and Chapter 7 appeared as ‘To Articulate the
Void by a Void: Aporetic Writing and Thinking in L’Attente l’oubli’, Word
and Text 5 (2015): 52–67, special issue on Blanchot’s Spaces. My thanks to
Brill and the Taylor and Francis Group for permission to reprint them here.
I must also express my profound gratitude to the staff at Bloomsbury,
especially Haaris Naqvi and Katherine De Chant, for their exemplary work
in bringing this book to print.

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x
 ABBREVIATIONS

Where double page references have been used they refer to the French or
German text, and then the English versions, as translations have been
modified throughout.

A Maurice Blanchot, L’Amitié (Paris: Gallimard, 1971); tr. Elizabeth

Rottenberg as Friendship (Stanford: Stanford University Press,
1997).
AO Blanchot, L’Attente l’oubli (Paris: Gallimard, 1962); tr. John Gregg
as Awaiting Oblivion (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press,
1997).
CQ Blanchot, Celui qui ne m’accompagnait pas (Paris: Gallimard,
1953); tr. Lydia Davis as ‘The One Who Was Standing Apart
From Me’, in The Station Hill Blanchot Reader: Fiction and
Literary Essays, ed. George Quasha (Barrytown, NY:
Station Hill, 1999).
DH Blanchot, Le Dernier Homme (Paris: Gallimard, 1957); tr. Lydia
Davis as The Last Man (New York: Columbia University Press,
1987).
ED Blanchot, L’Écriture du désastre (Paris: Gallimard, 1980); tr. Ann
Smock as The Writing of the Disaster (Lincoln: University of
Nebraska Press, 1986).
EI Blanchot, L’Entretien infini (Paris: Gallimard, 1969); tr. Susan
Hanson as The Infinite Conversation (Minneapolis: University of
Minnesota Press, 1993).
EL Blanchot, L’Espace littéraire (Paris: Gallimard, 1955); tr. Ann
Smock as The Space of Literature (Lincoln: University of
Nebraska Press, 1982).
FP Blanchot, Faux pas (Paris: Gallimard, 1943); tr. Charlotte Mandell
as Faux Pas (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001).
K Theodor W. Adorno, Kierkegaard. Konstruktion des Ästhetischen,
ed. Rolf Tiedemann (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1979); tr.

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xii ABBREVIATIONS

Robert Hullot-Kentor as Kierkegaard: Construction of the

Aesthetic (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1989).
LV Blanchot, Le Livre à venir (Paris: Gallimard, 1959); tr. Charlotte
Mandell as The Book to Come (Stanford: Stanford University
Press, 2003).
MS Albert Camus, Le Mythe de Sisyphe, essai sur l’absurde (Paris:
Gallimard, 1942); tr. Justin O’Brien as The Myth of Sisyphus
(London: Penguin, 1955).
ND Adorno, Negative Dialektik, ed. Rolf Tiedemann (Frankfurt am
Main: Suhrkamp, 1972); tr. E. B. Ashton as Negative Dialectics
(New York: Seabury Press, 1973).
PD Michel Foucault, ‘La pensée du dehors’, in Dits et écrits 1954–
1988: I, 1954–1969, eds Daniel Defert, François Ewald, and
Jacques Lagrange (Paris: Gallimard, 1994); tr. Brian Massumi as
‘The Thought of the Outside’, in Aesthetics, Method, and
Epistemology, ed. James D. Faubion (London: Penguin, 1998).
PF Blanchot, La Part du feu (Paris: Gallimard, 1949); tr. Charlotte
Mandell as The Work of Fire (Stanford: Stanford University Press,
1995).
PG G. W. F. Hegel, Phänomenologie des Geistes, eds Wolfgang
Bonsiepen and Reinhard Heede (Hamburg: Felix Meiner, 1980); tr.
A. V. Miller as Phenomenology of Spirit (Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 1977).
PP Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phénoménologie de la perception (Paris:
Gallimard, 1945); tr. Donald A. Landes as Phenomenology of
Perception (London: Routledge, 2012).
SZ Martin Heidegger, Sein und Zeit, ed. F.-W. von Herrmann
(Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1977); tr. Dennis
Schmidt and Joan Stambaugh as Being and Time (Albany: SUNY
Press, 2010).
TA Emmanuel Levinas, ‘Le temps et l’autre’, in Le Choix, le monde,
l’existence (Grenoble: Arthaud, 1947); tr. Richard A. Cohen as
Time and the Other (Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press,
1987).
TH Blanchot, Le Très-Haut (Paris: Gallimard, 1948); tr. Allan Stoekl
as The Most High (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1996).
TO Blanchot, Thomas l’Obscur, nouvelle version (Paris: Gallimard,
1992); tr. Robert Lamberton as ‘Thomas the Obscure’, in The
 ABBREVIATIONS xiii

Station Hill Blanchot Reader: Fiction and Literary Essays, ed.

George Quasha (Barrytown, NY: Station Hill, 1999).
UDT Walter Benjamin, Ursprung des deutschen Trauerspiels, in
Gesammelte Schriften I, eds Rolf Tiedemann and Hermann
Schweppenhäuser (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1974); tr. John
Osborne as The Origin of German Tragic Drama (London: Verso,
1977).
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