Blanchot was instrumental in the shaping of a whole generation of thinkers and writers including Foucault, Barthes and Derrida. His works, mostly published by small presses have not come readily to English, and he is therefore not widely known even among theorists. The central protagonist Henri Sorge, while recovering from an illness has a vision that the significant existance of man is only possible because of the death of God. Then Henri Sorge's nurse realises the Sorge if 'The Most High' and ironically, he who had the vision of god's death is revealed to be the One, and the nurse who identified him will also be the means of his end. The reader is drawn into a mystical world, those who do not know Blanchot will be enlightened.
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