Allen, William S. (2018) White noise, écriture blanche. Angelaki - Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, 23 (3), 28-41. (doi:10.1080/0969725X.2018.1473925).
Abstract
Le Dernier Homme is Blanchot’s last narrative or récit. Afterwards, he would begin to write in a more fragmentary mode, which suggests that he may have felt that the narrative form had been pushed as far it could in this work. This point of extremity is marked in particular by the monotonous style for which he has become notorious. This essay examines why this style arises, and how it leads to an extreme that can be usefully contrasted with Barthes’s notion of écriture blanche (“blank” writing). It becomes apparent that the blankness of this writing is not innocent but arises as noise for Blanchot, which not only manifests the material attenuation of the narrative but also its relation with the dead.
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