The article is based on two premises : firstly, that it is a psychotic individual whom Blanchot entrusts with the narration of his novel, and secondly, that its narrator, Henri Sorge, epitomizes the perfect totalitarian subjectivity. The novel, by not allowing the reader to decide whether it represents real events or the mere systematized delirium of the protagonist, illustrates both the psychotic side of totalitarianism and the « political » or social implications (according to the psychiatric conceptions that are contemporaneous with Blanchot) of paranoid psychosis.