Quote in context
Maurice Blanchot has written of “exchanging a few emotional words” with Georges Bataille after “being convinced (over-whelmed to the point of silence) at what was unique” about one of Bataille’s works: “I spoke not in the way you talk to an author about a book of his you admire, but in order to make him understand that such an encounter was enough for my entire life, just as the fact of having written the book should have been enough for his.” But Blanchot goes on to say: “Admiration, reflection, comparison with other works—the things that perpetuate a book are the very things that flatten or equalize it.” Herein, it seems to me, lies the raw, even aching problematic occupying the margins of Faur’s remarkable work.”
