“ Writing is the interminable , the incessant ” When discussing Kafka ’ s writing , Blanchot discloses Kafka ’ s surprise in discovering that one can write only when one
Hsieh does not mean that everything that one does is useless and devoid of meaning but rather that the act of living is reducible to the passing of time until one ’ s life is over . ( Hsieh 12 / 06 / 16 ).
Rilke , finds in suicide a form of death that is impatient and absentminded . One that rushes about trying to avoid suffering . For Rilke , Blanchot points out , it is important to embrace death and suffering , to wait till one can reach a place where one can reposition oneself in that “ which exceeds him ” ( Blanchot , 1989 , 124 )
“ Writing is the interminable , the incessant ” When discussing Kafka ’ s writing , Blanchot discloses Kafka ’ s surprise in discovering that one can write only when one
is able to substitute “ I ” for “ he ”. ( Blanchot , 1989 , 16 ); then the writer seems to become a mere conduit for what needs speaking . The same , in my opinion , can be said for any artist . Death , Blanchot argues is profoundly connected to the artistic experience . ( Blanchot , 1989 , 124 ) In order to create one must be prepared to die . By disappearing the “ I ” gives way to what the work needs to say . And from that point of view it can be said that the artist is waiting to die in order to create .
This process , I find , has various degrees of slowness and in my experience involves many stops and starts .
Like in the stutter where one builds up sentences in a series of blocks that take their time in coming and only make sense after a long wait , patience is crucial .
The shortest road is an offence against the indefinite if it leads us towards what we want to reach without making us reach what exceeds our will . Time as it is expressed in our habitual activities is time that decides , that negates ; it is the hasty movement between points that must not restrain it . Patience tells another time , another sort of task whose end one doesn ’ t see , which assigns us no goal that we can steadfastly pursue . ( Blanchot , 1982,127 )