The Case of Maurice Blanchot: Negativity, Death and Language Going Astray

Abstract

This article tries to delve into that relationship —which
Heidegger called unexpected— between language and extreme
negativity which is death. Through the reflections of Maurice
Blanchot, the essay develops the conditions of the possibility of
literature linked with language and truth; and also with what
Blanchot called literature’s demand that has to do with death as
long as the literary condition is that of dissolution of the subject
that writes in a passive and radical negation: a falling apart in the
vertiginous anonymity of language.