« Le contraire de l’espace ». La place de la littérature chez Blanchot, Céline et Foucault
« Le contraire de l’espace ». La place de la littérature chez Blanchot, Céline et Foucault1

Summary/Abstract: This article is not a comparative study of the works of Blanchot, Céline and Foucault. Our ambition is much more focused: we would like to experiment, through a series of analyses and observations, the place that literature occupies and invest in these authors’ texts. Such texts, in spite of seeming much different, are however profoundly similar because they all concentrate on the theme of the outside (le dehors) which is inseparable from Blanchot’s name. In all the three projects, literature has a similar task: to enquire about the nature, the ideas and the mythical spaces of the twentieth century. The effect of these explorations is to move the core of the ‘order of things’ in favour of new off-centre areas, those where literary speech finds its origin. As three different impossible but yet existing scenes, Thomas l’Obscur, Voyage au bout de la nuit and Les Mots et les choses draw the negative map of the experiences of order in the era of modernity.

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