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BECKETT, DERRIDA, AND THE EVENT OF LITERATURE Cultural Memory m the Present Mieke Bal and Hent de Vries, Editors BECKETT, DERRIDA, AND THE EVENT OF LITERATURE Asja Szafraniec STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS STANFORD, CALIFORNIA 2007 Stanford University Press Stanford, California ©2007 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system without the prior written permission of Stanford University Press. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Szafraniec, Asja. Beckett, Derrida, and the event of literature I Asja Szafraniec. p. cm.-(cultural memory in the present) ISBN 978-o-8047-5456-9 (cloth : alk. paper)-ISBN 978-o-8047-5457-6 (pbk. : alk. paper) I. Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989-Criticism and interpretation. 2. Derrida, Jacques. 3· Literature-History and criticism-Theory, etc. 4· Authorship Psychological aspects. 5· Literature-Philosophy. 6. Deconstruction. I. Title. PR6oo3.Ez8zz8375 2007 848' .91409-dczz Typeset by Westchester Book Group in nlr3.5 Garamond For my parents Contents Acknowledgments XI Introduction I I. The Question of Literature 27 2. A Singular Odyssey 55 3· Beckett, Derrida, and the Ordinary 71 4- Beckett's "Exhausted" Archives 92 5· Singular Points of Transaction (I): The Subject n8 6. Singular Points of Transaction (II): "What Are Poets For?" The Authority of Literature 140 7· Singular Points of Transaction (III): "Wanting in Inanity." Negativity, Language, and "God" in Beckett 161 Concluding Remarks 183 Notes 193 Bibliography 231 Index 241
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