Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Preface -- Introduction -- PART ONE / KAFKA -- 1. Kafka's Teeth -- 2. The Ecstasy of Judgment -- 3. Embodied Violence and the Leap from the Law -- 4. Degradation of the Sublime -- PART TWO / BLANCHOT -- 5. Pointed Instants -- 6. The Shell and the Mask -- 7. The Dead Look -- PART THREE / BECKETT -- 8. Beckett's Voices and the Paradox of Expression -- 9. Company, But Not Enough -- Conclusion. Speech Unredeemed -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index