The absence of power or the affirmation of the neutral power of literature. Reflections on Blanchot's literary thought

Abstract

From the work of Maurice Blanchot, this article develops a theoretical reflection on the literature as an expression of a neutral power stripped of the authoritarian presence of power. Initially addresses the ambiguity that Blanchot detects between silence and the murmur present both in the course of everyday language and literature, as well as on the emptiness of speech intended to order and repeat the rules of tradition. Between these three forms of language, is in literature where it weighs more this ambiguity since in it there is an undercurrent of truth or unit. From that perspective it is then passed to reviewing the notion of desobramiento as an operation in which literature should reject any power which subsists in it to finally assert the neutral and impersonal power of the work.