Sometimes
he speaks of overcoming death. The word overcome is one of the words poetry needs.
To overcome means to outdo [dépasser], but to outdo what outdoes us by
undergoing it, without turning away from it or aiming at anything beyond.
Perhaps it is in this sense that Nietzsche intends Zarathustra's formula:
"Man is something that must be overcome." It is not that man must
attain something beyond man; he has nothing to attain, and if he is what
exceeds him, this excess is not anything he can possess, or be. To overcome,
then, is also very different from to master. One of the errors of voluntary
death lies in the desire to be master of one's end and to impose one's form and
limit even upon this last movement. Such is the challenge of Igitur: to assign
a limit to chance, to die centered within oneself in the transparency of an
event which one has made equal to oneself, which one has annihilated and by
which, thus, one can be annihilated without violence. Suicide remains linked to
this wish to die by doing without death [en se passant de la mort].
- Maurice Blanchot, The space of
literature
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