Abstract
Sarah Ruhl, one of the most popular and prolific contemporary American playwrights, has dealt with loss, death, mourning, and ethical responsibilities of mortal beings. Letters from Max: a Book of Friendship, a collection of correspondence between Ruhl and Max Ritvo who was Ruhl’s student and colleague writer, is dedicated to contemplation on friendship, death, and mourning, which are intensely emotional and painful. In memory of the profound love and friendship, this book registers the lasting legacy of friendship in a form of mutual mourning and the possibility of the absolute hospitality toward the Other as a mortal being. These poetic and meditative writings enable a comprehensive reading for the shared origin of mourning and friendship, through which readers are invited to the work of mourning and responsibility to remember the equal and respectful friend/the Other.
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