Peggy Kamuf is Professor Emerita of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California. Her books include To Follow: The Wake of Jacques Derrida and Book of Addresses, which won the Ren¿ellek Prize. She is co-editor of the seminars of Jacques Derrida and has translated several books by Derrida, including The Death Penalty I.

Introduction 1
1. Beginning with Literature 17
2. Orwell's Execution 41
3. Is Justice Burning? 61
4. The Sentence Is the Story 95
5. Playing the Law 123
Postmortem 145
Acknowledgments 149
Bibliography 151
Index 159

Peggy Kamuf is Professor Emerita of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California. Her books include To Follow: The Wake of Jacques Derrida and Book of Addresses, which won the René Wellek Prize. She is co-editor of the seminars of Jacques Derrida and has translated several books by Derrida, including The Death Penalty I.