Ecritures avides: Samuel Beckett, Louis-Rene des Forets, Thomas Bernhard in Bloomington, MN

Offering a new comparative reading of Samuel Beckett, Louis-Rene des Forets, and Thomas Bernhard, this essay analyzes the hold that their stories exert and scrutinizes the notions of textual greed (avidite scripturaire), excess, and libido dicendi without disentangling them from their opposite, the temptation of laconism and silence.