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by Jacques Derrida (Author), Derek Attridge (Editor) "The original interview, of which this is an edited transcript, took place in Laguna Beach over two days in April 1989 ..." (more)
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Acts of Literature, compiled in close association with Jacques Derrida, brings together for the first time a number of Derrida's writings on literary texts. The essays discuss literary figures such as Rousseau, Mallarme, Joyce, Shakespeare, and Kafka, and comprise pieces spanning Derrida's career. The collection includes a substantial new interview with him on questions of literature, deconstruction, politics, feminism and history, and Derek Attridge provides an introductory essay on deconstruction and the question of literature, with suggestions for further reading. These essays examine the place and operation of literature in Western culture, and are highly original responses to individual literary texts. They highlight Derrida's interest in literature as a significant cultural institution and as a peculiarly challenging form of writing, with inescapable consequences for our thinking about philosophy, politics and ethics.


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4.0 out of 5 stars Literary Performances, 12 Jun 2008
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Derrida, as one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century, spend much time writing about writing. Whilst this might seem self-reflexive, questioning the fixed notions of writing (and everything else) was one of Derrida's most typical strategies. Derrida investigates how the literariness of literature comes about, the tropes, metaphors and un-noticed assumptions shapes our meanings, and how the institutionalisation of literature affects Western culture.

This book is arranged into chapters, each featuring a long essay on one writer. Generally these writers are from the (post)modernist, European side of the tracks - Kafka, Joyce, Mallarme - but also include more traditional greats such as Rousseau (regarding his "Confessions") and Shakespeare (on "Romeo and Juliet"). Be warned, however: even if you enjoy these writers, Derrida can be an impenetrable writer if you are new to him, for both his method and his style lead him to be what some regard as obscure (while for others his verbal play is intoxicating). That said, there is also a long interview with Derrida at the beginning of the book (as well as an introduction which goes over the central premises of Derrida's thought on writing and literature) which highlight and explain certain key topics and words. These include deconstruction, differance, the supplement and iterability. Typically for Derrida, the interview is little easier to understand than the writtem texts - quite how he managed to speak in such lengthy, complex sentences I'll never know.

These book is essentially for literary students, or those studying Derrida. As said above, even for fans of the writers mentioned above, this book would be very hard going for people not already someway inducted into the methodology (though Derrida would denounce that word) of deconstruction (he'd denounce that one too). But if you seek a book where Derrida investigates, critiques, deconstructs and generally sets forth upon literature, this is the best of its kind.
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