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Hélène Aji, « Mourning: Impossible », Éditions Rue d’Ulm, ID : 10670/1.ajui08
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Speaking is impossible, but so too would be silence or absence or a refusal to share one’s sadness.The words of Jacques Derrida about the death of Paul De Man are without doubt one of the sources for this reflection on mourning in the poems of T. S. Eliot, or rather on how the poems obstinately attempt to bring mourning to an end, and, it is going to be my argument, repeatedly fail to do so, thus powering a poetic production that is at the same time relentless and “enervating.” With Derrida...