Kafka’s Intermediaries: Notes on Deferral, Gesture and Guilt

There is a moment, says Maurice Blanchot, when impatience—the belief that ‘the goal is close or that one is coming nearer to it’—is abandoned.3 This ‘goal’ carries at least a double emphasis: it is at once the outside of language, the infinitely receding end towards which thought intends, and the vanishing point which governs action, the end that legitimates one’s present ‘point of view’. Such a perspective

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