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The End

Post #37 Baudelaire’s gift (170-172)Derrida ends Given Time; signalling the unknowability of the secret of what either Baudelaire, the narrator, or the friend meant to say or do in…

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May 2, 2017December 3, 2023

The Judgment of Nature

Reading Given Time, Post #36 Confessing an infinite debt (164-170) Derrida now focuses on the narrator’s refusal to give forgiveness to his friend, for doing “evil out of stupidity,”…

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May 2, 2017December 3, 2023

Three Motifs of Reverie

Reading Given Time, Post #35 Taking time (157-163) Derrida continues his analysis of Counterfeit Money, pointing out that the narrator, at first, tries to make excusable what his friend…

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May 2, 2017December 3, 2023

A Terrible Scene of Friendship

Reading Given Time, Post #34 The enigma of the text (152-156) Whether or not the friend gave the beggar a counterfeit coin is the interest, the enigma of Baudelaire’s…

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April 30, 2017December 3, 2023

The Credit of Literature

Reading Given Time, Post #33 The relationship between the narrator and the friend is uncertain, questionable, did the friend truly give counterfeit money or did he lie to his…

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April 27, 2017December 3, 2023

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