“What does it remember? Itself, death as memory. An immense memory in which one dies. First to forget. To remember only where one remembers nothing. To forget: to remember everything as though by way of forgetting. There is a profoundly forgotten point from which every memory radiates. Everything is exalted in memory from something which is forgotten, an infinitesimal detail, a minuscule fissure into which it passes in its entirety.”
A gripping narrative that follows the last surviving man as he grapples with the aftermath of a mysterious plague that has wiped out civilization. more
Maurice Blanchot was a French writer known for his profound philosophical thoughts and unique literary style. His works spanned across philosophy, literary criticism, and fiction, profoundly influencing French culture in the 20th century. more
“Forgetting is as integral to memory as death is to life.”
“What the waking and the healthy seem to have forgotten, the sleeping and the sick remember.”
“Forgetting you is not easy for me, Death is easier for me than Forgetting you.”
“I just gritted my teeth, took out a needle, and worked him out of my heart like a splinter.”