Theme
The
Secret
« The secret of
literature, its the secret per se. That secret of what it confesses,
which remains secret whereas, in full light, it is confessed, disclosed or
purported to be.”*, wrote Jacques Derrida on Hélène Cixous’s novel,
Manhattan (2002).
The idea that
literature holds its secret, and that in it lays the intrinsic legitimacy
of literature, is a way to think that a book is more than what we read. In
other words, the meaning of a book is beyond the confines of its subject.
The secret of
literature that we pursue when we read is related to wanderings (cf. Ulysse’s wanderings), to ellipses, to the unspeakable as well as their
opposite, condensation, dispersion or prolixity.
* Editor’s
translation.
Theme of the next issue :
Absence --- see Submissions
