What is at stake in literature? Can we identify the fire that our
stories have lost, but that they strive, at all costs, to
rediscover? And what is the philosopher's stone that writers, with
the passion of alchemists, struggle to forge in their word
furnaces? For Giorgio Agamben, who suggests that the parable is the
secret model of all narrative, every act of creation tenaciously
resists creation, thereby giving each work its strength and grace.
The ten essays brought together here cover works by figures ranging
from Aristotle to Paul Klee and illustrate what urgently drives
Agamben's current research. As is often the case with his writings,
their especial focus is the mystery of literature, of reading and
writing, and of language as a laboratory for conceiving an
ethico-political perspective that places us beyond sovereign power.
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