Beckett, Derrida, and the Event of LiteratureThe late Jacques Derridas notion of literature is explored in this new study. Starting with Derridas self professed inability to comment on the work of Samuel Beckett, whom Derrida nevertheless considered one of the most interesting and exemplary writers of our time, Asja Szafraniec argues that the shared feature of literary works as Derrida understands them is a double, juridical economical gesture, and that one aspect of this notion (the juridical)