Cover -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Beckett - Critical Literature -- Subject as Dilemma -- Metaphysical Experience -- The Rhetoric of Impossibility -- Hearing Subject -- Part One. Demons of Descartes -- Chapter One. Mistaken Consciousness / Consciousness in Distress -- Necessity to Look, Necessity to Speak -- Se voir -- Illusion of Autonomy -- Necessity of Telling -- Contemplating Emptiness -- Chapter Two. The Invention of Time or the Trap of Consciousness -- The Illness of Time -- Painful Habit -- Subjectivity and Falsehood -- Assisting in One's Own Absence -- Part Two. Voice and Death -- Chapter One. A Persistent Trace Inside of Silence -- The Voice and Non-Speech -- Lethal Beginnings -- Consciousness and the "Destruction of the Voice" -- The Ontology of Sound -- The Stage of Life, the Stage of Consciousness -- Chapter Two. Between Nameless and Unnamable -- The Subject that Disappears -- The Gesture of Death -- Trapped in Language -- Il faut continuer -- Part Three. Long Hours of Darkness. The Subject in Crisis -- Chapter One. Against the Event -- Genesis of the Event. Between Repetition and Difference -- Language - Immaterial Materiality -- The Absolute Event, the Impossible Event -- Chapter Two. Laughter and the Inexpressible -- The Reality of the Mouth -- Laughter and Death -- Outside of Presence -- Illumination of the Face -- The Explosion of the Poem -- The Time Syncope -- Nothingness and Game -- Reversed Theology -- Chapter Three. Objective Suffering -- Mad Moment -- The Speech of Suffering -- Part Four. Dreams of Stability -- Chapter one. Poetry of absence -- Sense as a Fable -- The Place of the Imagination -- Beyond the Power of Sight, or the Presence of Absence -- In the Rhythm of Death -- Chapter Two. Existence as Correction -- The Real - Between Light and Darkness.

The Crisis of Self-Representation - From Intention to Description -- Still as Neutrality -- The Sound to Come -- "How to Say It?" -- Bibliography.