How can we write or think about disaster when by its very nature it defies speech and compels silence burns books and shatters meaningthe writing of the disaster reflects upon efforts to abide in disasters infinite threat first published in french in 1980 it takes up the most serious tasks of writing to describe explain and redeem when possible and to admit what is not possible neither offers consolationmaurice blanchot has been praised on both sides of the atlantic for his . The writing of the disaster reflects upon efforts to abide in disasters infinite threat first published in french in 1980 it takes up the most serious tasks of writing to describe explain and. The writing of the disaster reflects upon efforts to abide in disasters infinite threat first published in french in 1980 it takes up the most serious tasks of writing to describe explain and redeem when possible and to admit what is not possible neither offers consolation maurice blanchot has been praised on both sides of the atlantic for his fiction and criticism the philosopher emmanuel levinas once remarked that blanchots writing is a language of pure transcendence without . The writing of the disaster is where the ashes of those who remain without a grave are buried testimonial and testamentary literature testamentary because it is testimonial 3 the notion of disaster is a particularly complex movement of thinking because as is often the case with blanchot concepts unfold in paradoxes or even in aporias the notion of disaster firstly challenges our representation of time in so far as it includes at the same time what has already taken place and also