A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with it. A secret, because he is separated from it.

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Michael Holland (ed. At the same time he began a lifestyle of relative isolation often not seeing close friends (like Levinas) for years while continuing to write lengthy letters to them.

His work had a strong influence on post-structuralist philosophers such as Jacques Derrida. Maurice Blanchot (22 September 1907 – 20 February 2003) was a French writer philosopher and literary theorist.