The mysterious group

Book name: The Mysterious Group Author: Maurice Blanchot Publisher: Lines and Shadows Book classification: Novel Summary of the book: Today, Blanchot's works are the most read in France and abroad, especially in America, where his name has been associated with "deconstructive philosophy." His works represent the fruit of a journey through three interconnected fields: politics, philosophy, and literature. But crossing the contact lines of these knowledge branches has remained governed by a specific horizon for literature. For Blanchot, literature is the maximum possibility to think about what has remained hidden in oblivion. Blanchot has consistently applied this creative concept of literature through a series of concepts: the neutral, le neutre; the outside, le dehors; darkness, la nuit; the writer; literature; death; the text; language; writing; reading... Perhaps this is confirmed by this work, which we present here in its first Arabic translation: The Mysterious Group. The literary work — and perhaps better than others — will allow the investigation of the nature of the group as a secret, but a secret that reveals nothing. The group is not something given in itself, but it is what will always be resolved. The group.