| Summary: | This paper aims to follow the trajectory of Maurice Blanchot, showing an aspect which, until now, has been very little considered by the critics: his unacknowledged activity as a translator, who developed his whole life‟s work based on his proximity to German language writers. In this regard, we will highlight the publishing of Le Dernier à parler [The last to speak], which presents the translations of Paul Celan‟s poetry, and the role of this essay-booklet in Blanchot‟s work. Deliberately, right before, he published Le Pas au-delà (1973) and L‟Écriture du desastre (1980) in order to succeed L‟Attente l‟oubli (1962), L‟Entretien infini (1969) and L‟Amitié (1971). At the first stage, we will show the speeches about translation and, as a point of refusal, we will refer to the subversive game played by the translation activity towards the secondary position that both the critics and the creative activity attributed to him. Based on this tension, we will emphasize that translation Ŕ activity performed by Blanchot Ŕ has fed the adventure of fragmentary demand, changing the fragment related to both theoretical debate and practice of translation, since Le Dernier à parler aims to promote a meeting between translation and fragment. Afterwards, we will emphasize the relationship between écriture fragmentaire and the difficult of writing about Auschwitz, after Auschwitz Ŕ après coup, according to Blanchot. We will assure that the translation by Paul Celan is essential to the metamorphosis/mobility of the fragmentary, taking the poetry, the Judaism and the Shoah to the écriture. Finally, we will analyze the aspects of Le Dernier à parler, in order to create a criticism of the translation taking the fragment/fragmentary into consideration. When approaching poetry and fragment, there is an opening discussion about a poetry thought.
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