/lit/ - Literature

>The act of writing is related to the absence of the work, but is invested in the Work as book. The madness of writing—this insane game—is the relation of writing; a relation established not between the writing and production of the book but, through the book's production, between the act of writing and the absence of the work.
>To write is to produce the absence of the work (worklessness, unworking [désoeuvrement]). Or again: writing is the absence of the work as it produces itself through the work, traversing it throughout. Writing as unworking (in the active sense of the word) is the insane game, the indeterminacy that lies between reason and unreason.
>What happens to the book in this "game" in which worklessness is set loose in the operation of writing? The book: the passage of an infinite movement that goes from writing as an operation to writing as worklessness; a passage that immediately impedes. Writing passes by way of the book, but the book is not that to which it is destined (its destiny). Writing passes through the book, accomplishing itself there even as it disappears there; yet we do not write for the book. The book: a ruse by which writing goes toward the absence of the book.
(The Infinite Conversation)

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Both Bataille and Klossowski are hacks

Only Blanchot left a significant mark on postwar thinkers and writers (Derrida, Deleuze, Levinas, Foucault, Sollers)

an anon posted a thread about the book Thomas l'obscur(Maurice Blanchot) the other day and I very much enjoyed it, was wondering what other sorts of French lit is similar to this. Or even literature in other languages if you think it fits. Will post a short excerpt from the second chapter to give an idea what it is like

I've always been a big fan of Bataille, Deleuze, and Breton and I always see Maurice Blanchot come up in the same convo, but I've never read anything by him. So, /lit/, what would you consider his most essential stuff? I just got a new job which is mostly sitting and waiting so I figured nows the best time to binge some authors.