PART II

1920s–1940

Writing as the question of writing, a question that bears writing that bears the question, no longer allows you this relation to being—understood first as tradition, order, certainty, truth, all forms of rootedness—which one day you received from worlds past, a domain that you were called to administer the better to strengthen your “Ego” [Moi], even though it had as it were cracked open, the day the sky opened onto its emptiness.

MAURICE BLANCHOT, The Step Not Beyond