It is true that there was an evolution in my political practice: this evolution unfolded itself (in part) through historical events, the rise of Hitler, the war in Spain (the r��cit L''Idylle' marked the importance that this had for me), 1940, the resistance. But it unfolded itself more profoundly through the necessities of literary experience. The long ordeal that was Thomas l'Obscur changed me metaphysically and politically, in a radical manner, and to the degree that Faux Pas is a theoretical response to Thomas l'Obscur I can absolutely reject the influence of Maurras and you can see that he is, literally and philosophically, at the antipodes of my inclinations.

Blanchot, undated letter to ��velyne Londyn, cited here