Abstract
Tracing a tacit correspondence between Denis Thériault’s Le facteur émotif and, through the work of Jacques Derrida, Sigmund Freud’s Beyond the Pleasure Principle , this essay considers how a speculative treatise published in 1920 and a Québécois novel released in 2005 echo and elucidate one another in their lifedeath , prostheses, and epistolarity.
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