Les nouvelles de Grace Paley : ironie, déconstruction et spiralité

Grace Paley contributes to American Jewish literature in a very particular way and presents deconstructive humor and irony in a manner reminiscent of the Derridian idea of deconstruction. Irony addresses another person, creating a physical and temporal distance which produces a dialectical movement between one and the other, an effect which we link to Jacques Derrida' s concept of difference. This process forms a spiral, generating as it does so a force which pulls the reader towards an a-venir, a potential future.