Aminadab, the second novel published by Blanchot, in 1942, reports the wander of Thomas in a labyrinthine hotel. One there is observed a leitmotiv: descriptions of portraits whose faces are systematically erased or scrambled. This device puts a place a double law space and temporal of neutralization which informs the course of the character and plunges it in at the same time disappointing interpretative search and liberator: there is nothing to discover, if it is this nothing, beyond negativity.
face; resemblance; neutralization; interpretation; labyrinth; space; time