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Written in the late 70s, published in 1990, the Petits traites invent a new form. They are the peculiar solution that Quignard invents to break out from oral speech and philosophy, to assert the paradoxical muteness of literature. He claims to be a «misologue», but does not repeat the reflexive gesture of the late modernity. On the contrary, he points out to the necessary blind spot of vision and of writing. Denying any possibility of self-reflexivity, he favors a tragic speculation about the origin and about the void that gives literature its energy.