Beckett, Derrida, and the Event of Literature (Hardcover)

"Those who live by the word have unfinished business with the achievement of Samuel Beckett. Asja Szafraniec's ambitious study, taking Derrida's elaborations as measures in turn measured by Beckett's corpus, is as clear and comprehensive and illuminating a progress with the complex of these performers as one might ask for. Near initiates of this region of crisscross between what is called philosophy and what literature, as well as experienced warriors within it, should find cause to be grateful for Asja Szafraniec's sure hand and expansive connections." --Stanley Cavell, Harvard University
"This is a remarkable and valuable work in many respects, in particular because it is not only the first, to my knowledge, to systematically explore the relation between Derrida and Beckett, but also because it puts Derrida's vision of literature to the test in the context of a corpus of writings that does not belong to the canon of literature with which he has been involved." --Rodolphe Gasche, SUNY Buffalo