Absent without Leave

French Literature under the Threat of War

Denis Hollier

Translated by Catherine Porter

    Must Literature Be Possible?

    Deeds without Words

    Mimesis and Castration 1937

    Bataille's Tomb

    Unsatisfied Desire

    On Equivocation between Literature and Politics

    Fear and Trembling in the Age of Surrealism

    Under the Heading of Holofernes (Notes on Judith)

    Poetry from A to Z

    The Use Value of the Impossible

    When Existentialism Was Not Yet a Humanism

    A Farewell to Art

    Desperanto

    Notes

    Credits

    Index

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Denis Hollier is Chairman of the Department of French at Yale University. He is the author of many books, including works on Sartre and Bataille.