Evelyne Grossman, a professor of literary theory at Université Paris Diderot, specializes in the intersections of literature, philosophy, and psychoanalysis. Her work delves into the relationship between the body and text, exploring themes of melancholy and the anguish of thought. Grossman's approach is characterized by a profound integration of literary criticism with philosophical and psychoanalytic concepts. She examines authors whose works are marked by physicality and intense psychological states, illuminating their unique artistic contributions.
Anxiety is the obligatory gateway into writing: one s confrontation with powerlessness and anguish when faced with the task of thinking. This is not the familiar anxiety of our most intimate fears, however violent they might be. Yet by exploring these same pathways twentieth-century thinkers such as Artaud, Blanchot, Derrida, Beckett, and Levina