The 15 essays gathered in this volume attempt to ask questions
about reading, and more especially about the minimal preliminary
gesture of opening a book in order to read. What makes reading
possible and impossible, and how are that possibility and
impossibility figured in the texts we read? The concern here is not
with 'how to read', nor with the 'fate of reading', but with a much
more modest, but perhaps also more nagging, question: what does
reading demand if it is to be reading? What is reading, reading
itself? One constant thread here is this: reading entails the
unreadable. The unreadable, rather than the merely readable, is the
'object' of reading. And once what is read is the unreadable, then
the supposed unit of the book must be opened, certainly, but must
also remain open beyond any normal calculation of reading time or
interpretative outcomes. The open book is just what cannot be read
like an open book, is not entirely open, cannot ever quite be read.
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