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The Imperative to Write
The Imperative to Write
Destitutions of the Sublime in Kafka, Blanchot, and Beckett
jeff fort
fordham university press
New York
2014
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Fort, Jeff (date)
The imperative to write : destitutions of the sublime in Kafka, Blanchot,
and Beckett / Jeff Fort. — First edition.
pages cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
isbn 978-0-8232-5469-9 (cloth : alk. paper)
1. Sublime, The, in literature. 2. Kafka, Franz, 1883–1924—
Criticism and interpretation. 3. Blanchot, Maurice—Criticism
and interpretation. 4. Beckett, Samuel, 1906–1989—Criticism and
interpretation. I. Title.
pn56.s7416f68 2014
809—dc23
2013030646
Printed in the United States of America
16 15 14
54321
First edition
contents
List of Abbreviations
Preface
introduction: “Why Do You Write?”—The Fault of Writing
vii
ix
1
part one / kafka
1.
2.
3.
4.
Kafka’s Teeth: The Literary
Gewissenbiss
The Ecstasy of Judgment
Embodied Violence and the Leap from the Law: “In the Penal Colony”
and
The Trial
Degradation of the Sublime: “A Hunger Artist”
17
58
101
144
part two / blanchot
5.
6.
7.
Pointed Instants: Blanchot’s Exigencies
The Shell and the Mask:
L’arrêt de mort
The Dead Look: The Death Mask, the Corpse Image, and the Haunting
of Fiction
163
213
248
part three / beckett
8.
9.
Beckett’s Voices and the Paradox of Expression
Company,
But Not Enough
Conclusion: Speech Unredeemed: From the Call of Conscience
to the Torture of Language
Notes
Bibliography
Index
293
330
347
361
405
413
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