Abstract EN:

We elaborate the notion of "critical writing" in blanchot's non fictional work. This notion is important, not only because these writings are critical, but also because criticism should be understood as central to writing as such. We have restricted our corpus to the non fictional writings. These writings think literary criticism as a "relation" fondamentaly defined by its impossibility. Analysing blanchot's practice of literary criticism, we find that this "relation" is paradoxically possible in a "critical writing". The critical dimension comes from the self questioning of blanchot's critical writings on criticism. But the autoreflexive gesture is not only a solipsist movement it is open to a specific temporality that we call the "time of criticism". This time signifies that writing is a process within which reading is defered and always put off in re-writing. The mean of that "defering time" is the other critics texts taken as a mediation to the text, and also, the "ressassement" through which blanchot, repeatingly, focuses on and displaces the same figures, problematics and privileged authors. This specific time of critical writing shows an evolution in blanchot's non fictional work aswell. When blanchot writes in fragments it is a moment which may be seen as a crisis and, at the same time, a renewal of the critical relation. What is at stake in that moment? the reconstitution, trough the ordeal of disaster, of the subject of writing which has been broken up. In that recovery of the subject, the self can only be thought in relation with the other. The relation with the other was inscribed from the beginning in the critical relation and its paradox should be understood according to blanchot's thinking of friendship an community : a relation that does not relate. This is the signification of the torment which inhabitates his critical writings. The impossibility of beeing in relation is sustained in the writing of/to the other writer.