Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Henry James ('The middle years')
  • Ludwig Wittgenstein (Tractatus logico-philosophicus)
  • Gertrude Stein (Tender buttons)
  • Paul Cézanne and Rainer Maria Rilke (Letters on Cézanne)
  • Ernest Hemingway (In our time)
  • Martin Heidegger ('What is metaphysics?')
  • T.S. Eliot
  • Virginia Woolf
  • Samuel Beckett (Watt)
  • Mark Rothko
  • William Gaddis (The recognitions)
  • Vladimir Nabokov (Speak, memory)
  • Theodor Adorno (Negative dialectics)
  • Susan Sontag ('The aesthetics of silence')
  • Penelope Fitzgerald (The blue flower)
  • Krzysztof Kieślovski (The double life of Véronique)
  • Frank Kermode (The genesis of secrecy)
  • Jacques Derrida ('How to avoid speaking : denials')
  • Epilogue.