Herman Melville's Bartleby, asked to account for himself, "would
prefer not to." Tongue-tied Billy Budd, urged to defend his
innocence, responds with a murderous blow. The Bavard, by
Louis-Rene des Forets, concerns a man whose power to speak is
replaced by an inability to shut up. In these and other literary
examples a call for speech throws the possibility of speaking into
doubt. What Is There to Say? uses the ideas of Maurice Blanchot to
clarify puzzling works by Melville, des Forets, and Beckett. Ann
Smock's energetic readings of texts about talking, listening, and
recording cast an equally welcome light on Blanchot's paradoxical
thought. Ann Smock is a professor of French at the University of
California, Berkeley and the author of Double Dealing. She
translated Maurice Blanchot's The Space of Literature and The
Writing of the Disaster, as well as Sarah Kofman's Rue Ordener, Rue
Labat, all published by the University of Nebraska Press.
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