Sade ou le Royaume de l'Unique [Quelques remarques sur Sade] - Manuscrit autographe complet

Complete autograph manuscript of 12 pages on 6 octavo leaves with a title difficult to decipher, perhaps: "Sade or the Kingdoms of the Unique" and which would appear under the title "Some Remarks on Sade" in Critique no. 3-4 of August-September 1946.
Manuscript with very dense writing, containing numerous deletions, corrections and additions.

"It is Sade's thought that pushes Blanchot's to its fulfillment, and it is also Blanchot's that fulfills that of Sade." (Georges Bataille)
Bataille's writing and friendship are undoubtedly not unrelated to the importance that Blanchot would attach throughout his life to this tutelary figure of his philosophical reflection.
These Some Remarks on Sade, are nonetheless the first study that Blanchot devoted to this writer whom he had until then almost never mentioned.
In this first impartial and sometimes severe analysis, Blanchot emphasizes the weaknesses of Sade's literary posture and his relative immorality within a post-revolutionary society shaped by ideological contradictions.
However, beneath the artifice of extreme expression, Blanchot reveals a philosophy far more disconcerting and subversive than these "great extravagances".
With singular acuity, he draws the portrait of a unique mind, embracing all the great ideals of his time but inflicting upon them the filter of his nihilistic singularity: "Freedom, in his eyes, is nothing but the prohibition made to any person from being anything other than what he wants, that is to say nothing."
Under Blanchot's pen, Sadism is then no longer the enjoyment of violence inflicted on others, but the expression of "the infinite solitude of the individual" in a world "where the relationships between beings, the general forms of life and even language, everything is already consumed in universal destruction"; "and henceforth all particular cruelties are no longer destined (...) except to bring to the Unique the pleasant proofs of his existence in the midst of nothing."
If, as Bataille emphasizes, more than a fresh perspective, Blanchot's reading of Sade reveals a community of thought, it is undoubtedly through the conclusion of this first major study that Blanchot the solitary most clearly testifies to his attachment to Sade the Unique:
"And then, one comes to think: if circumstances made Sade a man forever reduced to the misery of an eternal prison, he himself knew how to make his prison the image of the solitude of the universe over which reigns his sole glory forever all-powerful. This prison does not hinder him, it is his work, it is commensurate with the world over which he has more rights than God himself, for not only does he reign there as master, but he has banished and excluded all creatures from it. Such is the advantage of the Destroyer over the Creator. This atheist is more God than God. Thus he is called divine."