Maurice Blanchot
Maurice Blanchot
Maurice Blanchotwas a French writer, philosopher, and literary theorist. His work had a strong influence on post-structuralist philosophers such as Jacques Derrida...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth22 September 1907
CountryFrance
foreheads throat seeing
To see was terrifying, and to stop seeing tore me apart from my forehead to my throat.
strength law secret
The less manifest the work, the stronger: as though a secret law demanded it always be hidden in what it shows, thus showing what must remain hidden, only showing it, in the end, by dissimulation.