Abstract
Jacques Derrida¹ ends his 1993 essay “Passions: ‘An Oblique Offering’” by confessing his taste in books. “Literature I could, fundamentally do without, in fact, rather easily,” writes Derrida there. “If I had to retire to an island, it would be particularly history books, memoirs, that I would doubtless take with me, and that I would read in my own way, perhaps to make literature out of them.”² What fascinates Derrida is not literature itself but rather the potential of the nonliterary text to become literary. Derrida explains this idea of the becoming-literary of the nonliterary text in one of his...
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Interpreting Abraham |
| Subtitle of host publication | Journeys to Moriah |
| Publisher | Project Muse |
| Pages | 187-209 |
| Number of pages | 23 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781451452372 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780800699581 |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Jan 2014 |
| Externally published | Yes |