The Thoughts Of Writing In Blanchot's The Space Of Literature

Last century in France, the light of Sartre and Barthes had once covered over many figures such as Blanchot, who existed as a self-retired thinker. He usually introduced himself in his works with brief words:'Maurice Blanchot, novelist and critic, was born in 1907. His life is wholly devoted to literature and to the silence unique to it.'From the re-discovering of Sade and Rilke to the re-interpreting about Hlderlin and Kafka, Blanchot had his silence become weighty like a stone in his theoretical writing. He is not only as Sartre and Bataille's peers, but also as Foucault, Barthes and Derrida's spiritual mentor. But in the last time of his life, he gradually refused to show himself, and to accept any interviews neither. He became "the most famous one of the forgotten". This paper primarily analyzes the space of literature, Blanchot's famous work of critical theory, focuses on its philosophical insight into literature, and try to explain its special perspective of writing and interpret Blanchot's silence that can not be neglected. This article mainly includes three parts:the space of death in writing, reading and communication, and the alienation of author from his works, through which this paper explains the thoughts on writing in the space of literature. Writing must firstly throw itself into a external and mysterious space of death, where the writer is not a writer and his writing is dominated by a mysterious external force which also absolutely internal ones. There is an overlap between the external and the internal in fact and the work is only a product resulted from the author's closing to this space. Through close reading the text of Blanchot, we can find that nothing is affirmed, praised or criticized in it. Blanchot had never had his attitude appeared ostensibly in text and only a possible view of literature has been imposed on a literary work to strengthen his interpretation of it. In Blanchot's ideas of literature, the work merely exists there and only appears as a book before its birth. Just being read and communicated with reader can a book come to finish itself as a work.