Stepping Off the Edge

INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1: LOCATING, RELOCATING, DISLOCATING THE EDGE OF THE TEXT
Anne Carson’s Autobiography of Red
Valeria Luiselli’s The Story of My Teeth
CHAPTER 2: TANGIBLE GHOSTS: WRITING AFTER LIFE
Paul Auster’s “Portrait of an Invisible Man”
Anne Carson’s Nox
Maggie Nelson’s Jane: A Murder
CHAPTER 3: SELF-PORTRAIT FROM THE OUTSIDE
Marie NDiaye’s Self-Portrait in Green
César Aira’s How I Became a Nun
Marie Redonnet’s Candy Story
CHAPTER 4: WRITING THE END OF RELATION
Marguerite Duras’s The Malady of Death
Maggie Nelson’s Bluets
Lydia Davis’s The End of the Story
CHAPTER 5: APPROACHING THE END OF THE WORLD
César Aira’s Shantytown
Paul Auster’s The Country of Last Things