I struggle with the texts of Blanchot, especially with his writings on literature and criticism. What he is saying eludes my understanding and I end up holding very little in my hands that I can do anything with.,even though I realize that in Blanchot's world the propositional style of philosophical thinking has little ground on which to maneuver.

This quote from this review by Gerald Bruns of Leslie Hill, Brian Nelson, and Dimitris Vardoulakis (eds.), After Blanchot: Literature, Criticism, Philosophy---a volume of essays---is of help:

In both his fictional and his discursive writings Blanchot explores the phenomenological question of what it is like to experience this excessive region of exodus, exile, and extravagance. What happens is evidently even more radical than the reversal of consciousness that Hegel describes in his famous account of experience (Erfahrung) in the introduction to the Phenomenology. The possibility of experience itself is turned inside out, rather the way it is in mystical experiences in which one is no longer a subject who can see or hear or experience anything at all.

Hill cites the following passage from Blanchot's essay, "La Disparition de la litterature" in the The Book to Come [1959], trans. Charlotte Mandel (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003):

[It] is the essence of literature to escape any essential determination, any assertion that stabilizes it or even realizes it: it is never already there, it always has to be rediscovered or reinvented. It is not even certain that the word literature or the word art corresponds to anything real, anything possible or anything important. . . . Whoever asserts literature in itself asserts nothing. Whoever looks for it looks for only what is concealed; whoever finds it finds only what is on this side of literature or, what is worse, beyond it. That is why, finally, it is non-literature that each book pursues as the essence of what it loves and wants passionately to discover. (p. 201)