Has anybody read any works by Maurice Blanchot ?

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Feel free to share your opinions upon answering. I know who he is so don't bother giving me links or lengthy descriptions of his biography. I'm just interested in how well-known he is and what his reputation is among respondants. Thanks in advance.

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Maurice Blanchot (September 27, 1907 – February 20, 2003) was a French writer, philosopher, and literary theorist.

His best-known fictional works are "Thomas the Obscure", an unsettlingly abstract novel about the experience of reading and loss; "Death Sentence; Aminadab" and "The Most High" about a bureaucrat in a totalitarian state. His central theoretical works are "Literature and the Right to Death" (in The Work of Fire and The Gaze of Orpheus), "The Space of Literature", "The Infinite Conversation", and "The Writing of Disaster".