The thought of writing: difference and/or event. Maurice Blanchot between Derrida and Foucault

In this study, the author proposes to mesure what could be taken into play between his first reading of Blanchot (Maurice Blanchot and the question of writing, Gallimard, 1966) and his current interpretation. The book in 1966 tries to approach (in light of Derrida's notion of writing) Blanchot's work in its totality, in other words, in the objechf of establishing a discontinued continuity between fields apparently incompatible, such as fiction, literary criticism and philosophy. The present study aims to discuss the choice of the derridian theory of writing that now, seems no longer sufficient, especially when we take into account the void in-between the fragments of texts and unidentifiable characters of heros or heroines in Blanchot's work The first part of the article settles the historical perspective, and contextualizes Blanchot's system in regard to the new novel. The second part intents to situate Blanchot in regard to the reading of Derrida and Foucault, specifically around the notion of "differance" and "event". At the end, the third and the forth parts demonstrate how, the event, under the belated inflexion of his reading of Levinas, comes to be rendered in terms of absolute disarrangement of alterity.