Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Dangerous Understanding -- Form and (Dis-)content -- The Politics of Existence -- The Cultural Fatigue of French Canada -- Occupation: Writer -- The Mystic Body -- The Art of Defeat -- The Differential Calculus of Counter-Revolution -- Literature and Alienation -- The Death of the Accursed Writer -- Thoughts on the Status of the Writer -- Joual: Haven or Hell? -- The Disappearance in Language of the Poet" (Mallarmé) -- Why I Am Disenchanted with the Wonderful World of Roger Lemelin -- The Text or the Surrounding Silence?