This work takes the form of a conversation, an interview. An obsessive
questioning back and forth builds up Blanchot's narrative, with its
sense - shared with Kafka's famous "doorkeeper" parable - that behind
each question lies the spooky possibility of a further, more imposing,
more insoluble question. Thematically, powerlessness, inertia,
insufficient speech, weariness, falling, faltering - everything tied to
a negative or nonexistent value in ordinary discourse - is given value
here by its being articulated, moved into writing and thought. What's
insignificant or worthless gathers weight through its troubling
persistence, its failure to disappear. The "endless" conversation of
Blanchot's writing turns "fiction" toward an experience of listening - a
far cry from the storytelling most fiction (still) takes itself to be.