ABSTRACT
The expressions le seul espace de lecriture and la fiction souveraine both bear witness to the discreet influence of Maurice Blanchot, the first in a direct echo of his L Espace litteraire, the second more problematically. Blanchot is attentive to that element in Bataille which insists on communication and on the modes of this communication: speech (la parole), friendship, community. In this attentiveness, moreover, Blanchot extracts Bataille's thought from the residues of a voluntarism or a heroism, or a reciprocal communication or relation between two presences independently established, in which the experience or the sacrifice would be appropriated as properties of the self, the je. In Blanchot's meditations on Bataille's experience the constant emphasis is that contestation, being experienced as a question without answer or arrest, demands communication. Solitude and silence betray the experience since they arrest the movement of contestation and reserve it within the interiority of the subject.
