Abstract

The author wonders how his investigation — based on a lack — could find a place in the changeful concept of literature. He has recourse to the notion of experience of nothingness whose import for Michaux he studies with the help of a few examples. One of these — Michaux writing on Rimbaud — leads him to observe that a poetics of motion sustains this experience in its quest for an elsewhere. The issues inherent in Michaux’s work are those of a literature built on its own impossibility, called upon to articulate ineffable silence. Are such considerations and the proper theological stance compatible?