“I also think I have an affinity with Klossowski. Yes, no doubt, a great affinity of soul. I’d like to speak to Klossowski. But no, not speak. With a soul perhaps so similar to mine, it would be better to sit side by side in silence.”
Maria Gabriela Llansol wrote this in 1979, after reading one of Klossowski’s books. Possibly Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle, where he writes: “Nietzsche was apprehensive about this propensity in himself, and his every effort was directed toward fighting the irresistible attraction that Chaos exerted on him.” The chasm, once named, becomes unavoidable.
Llansol’s response is not an agreement or admiration, but a recognition that leaves no room for elaboration. She does not want dialogue. She imagines sitting beside him. In silence. It is not a rejection of thought, but a gesture toward its limits. The kind of affinity that deepens when
Might be a intresting book. I would wonder what delirium is that could move 200 years of Philosophy and more, if indeed it merely centered on something “not entirely rational”? And, how much such authors who would consider what he has to say are not themselves caught up in a similar delerium if pointing at other’s failures to exhaust their own brand of modern insanity .
Klossowski is quite a curiosity. There are many of his books as PDFs on Monoskop. I’m not sure I’ll read much beyond what I read there yesterday.