Abstract: Blanchot’s The Unavowable Community allows us to read Duras’ The Malady of Death in its political implications. The encounter between man and woman situates the “community” in its structural nature, in intensity, to the exclusion of reciprocity. Divided by the feminine, the masculine is a metaphor of writing as a vehicle of the feminine considered as an ungraspable real, and revealing the hole within language. The latter makes community possible: with unity being achieved in separation.
