Includes bibliographical references (pages ) and index.
Contents
In praise of cruelty : Bataille, Kafka, and Ling-Chi -- Fragmentary description of a disaster : Claude Simon -- The resistance to pathos and the pathos of resistance : Peter Weiss -- Medeamachine : the "fallout" of violence in Heiner Muller -- Epilogue : Francis Bacon, or, The brutality of fact.