In the course of L’Attente L’Oubli, these and numerous other self-displacing motifs, either singly or in combination, are reiterated and rehearsed many times over. Paronomasia, ellipsis, oxymoron, chiasmus, paradox, all loom large in their articulation. Phrases or passages that appear in seemingly abbreviated or truncated form at one moment recur in expanded or amplified fashion at the next, and vice versa. Releasing reading from the teleological expectation that it is necessary to begin at the beginning and end at the ending, the fragmentary structure of L’Attente L’Oubli makes it possible to begin or end almost anywhere, with the result that every fragment in the text is simultaneously both a beginning and an ending and anything but a beginning and an ending, sited on the edge and at the core of a configuration that admits of neither.

From Leslie Hill's Maurice Blanchot and Fragmentary Writing