Translator's Introduction: The Risk of Reading | ix

To Risk One's Life | 1

Eurydice Saved | 4

Minuscule Magical Dependencies | 8

Voluntary Servitude and Disobedience | 11

In Suspense | 13

At the Risk of Passion | 17

Leaving the Family | 22

Forgetting, Anamnesis, Deliverance | 24

Incurable (In)fidelities | 29

Zero Risk? | 33

How (Not) to Become Oneself . . . | 36

Being in Secret | 39

Befriending Our Fears | 41

At the Risk of Being Sad | 46

At the Risk of Being Free | 49

The Time They Call Lost | 52

Dead Alive | 55

Of a Perception Infinitely Vaster . . . | 59

Anxiety, Lack-Spiritual Hunger? | 63

Farewell Magic World: Beyond Disappointment | 67

Life-Mine, Yours | 70

At the Risk of the Unknown | 72

At the Risk of Being Carnal | 74

May There Be an End to Our Torment . . . | 79

Breaking Up | 82

At the Risk of Speech | 86

Solitudes | 89

Laughter, Dreaming-Beyond the Impasse | 93

Hope No More | 101

Once Upon a Time, the "Athenaeum" . . . or, Why Risk Romanticism? | 106

Risking Belief | 111

Risking Variation | 114

The Event: Hyperpresence | 119

Intimate Prophecy | 122

At the Risk of Bedazzlement | 127

Desire, Body, Writing | 130

Healing? | 139

An Other Language | 142

Risking Scandal | 145

Taking the Risk of Childhood | 148

Assiduity | 151

Risking the Future | 154

At the Risk of Beauty | 158

At the Risk of Spirit | 162

Risking the Universal? | 164

Hauntings | 167

Spirals, Ellipses, Metaphors, Anamorphoses | 170

Envisaging Night | 173

Revolutions | 176

At the Risk of Going Through Hell (Eurydice) | 180
Notes | 187