The aim here is simply to test out to what extent it is possible to follow a text and at the same time to lose track of it, to be simultaneously the person it understands and the person who understands it, the person who, within a world, speaks of that world as though he or she were outside it; all in all,to take advantage of the strangeness of a dual work and an author split into two – into absolute lucidity and impenetrable darkness, into a consciousness that knows all and yet knows not where it is going – in order to feign the illusion of a commentary solely preoccupied with accounting for all and yet entirely aware of being able to explain nothing.
Maurice Blanchot, ‘L’Expérience de Lautréamont’ (LS, 59)