Blanchot's best-known fictional works are "Thomas l'Obscur" ("Thomas the Obscure"), an unsettling "récit" ("["récit"] is not the narration of an event, but that event itself, the approach to that event, the place where that event is made to happen") about the experience of reading and loss; "Death Sentence"; "Aminadab" and "The Most High" (about a bureaucrat in a totalitarian state). His central theoretical works are "Literature and the Right to Death" (in "The Work of Fire" and "The Gaze of Orpheus"), "The Space of Literature", "The Infinite Conversation", and "The Writing of the Disaster".