‘… I read all these texts, by breaking with all intimacy, with which we can stand with them, avoiding all effects of recognition. I try to present them in their singularity, in their greatest possible strangeness, in fact, hence the distance, that separates us from them, comes to light, about my language, to be able to introduce my own discourse at this distance, into this difference, into which we see ourselves placed and who we are in relation to them. Conversely, my discourse must be the place, where this difference appears.——-
So the role of writing for me is essentially that, to create and measure a distance. means to write, settle at this distance, that separates us from death—-
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Because I have the opportunity, was refused to speak, I have the pleasure, discovered to write. Between the pleasure of writing and the opportunity, to speak there is a certain relationship of incompatibility. Gives, where speaking is no longer possible, one discovers the secret, difficult, some dangerous charm of the writing.'—
(M. Foucault an Claude Bonnefoy, 1968)