Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Translator’s Introduction: The Risk of Reading ix
4. To Risk One’s Life 1
5. Eurydice Saved 4
6. Minuscule Magical Dependencies 8
7. Voluntary Servitude and Disobedience 11
8. In Suspense 13
9. At the Risk of Passion 17
10. Leaving the Family 22
11. Forgetting, Anamnesis, Deliverance 24
12. Incurable (In)fidelities 29
13. Zero Risk? 33
14. How (Not) to Become Oneself . . . 36
15. Being in Secret 39
16. Befriending Our Fears 41
17. At the Risk of Being Sad 46
18. At the Risk of Being Free 49
19. The Time They Call Lost 52
20. Dead Alive 55
21. Of a Perception Infinitely Vaster . . . 59
22. Anxiety, Lack—Spiritual Hunger? 63
23. Farewell Magic World: Beyond Disappointment 67
24. Life—Mine, Yours 70
25. At the Risk of the Unknown 72
26. At the Risk of Being Carnal 74
27. May There Be an End to Our Torment . . . 79
28. Breaking Up 82
29. At the Risk of Speech 86
30. Solitudes 89
31. Laughter, Dreaming—Beyond the Impasse 93
32. Hope No More 101
33. Once Upon a Time, the “Athenaeum” . . . or, Why Risk Romanticism? 106
34. Risking Belief 111
35. Risking Variation 114
36. The Event: Hyperpresence 119
37. Intimate Prophecy 122
38. At the Risk of Bedazzlement 127
39. Desire, Body, Writing 130
40. Healing? 139
41. An Other Language 142
42. Risking Scandal 145
43. Taking the Risk of Childhood 148
44. Assiduity 151
45. Risking the Future 154
46. At the Risk of Beauty 158
47. At the Risk of Spirit 162
48. Risking the Universal? 164
49. Hauntings 167
50. Spirals, Ellipses, Metaphors, Anamorphoses 170
51. Envisaging Night 173
52. Revolutions 176
53. At the Risk of Going Through Hell (Eurydice) 180
54. Notes 187