Five twentieth-century French writers played, and continue to play, a
pivotal role in the development of literary-philosophical thinking that
has come to be known in the United States as post-structuralism. The
work of Georges Bataille, Maurice Blanchot, Raymond Roussel, Michel
Leiris, and Francis Ponge in the 1930s and 1940s amounts to a prehistory
of today's theoretical debates; the writings of Foucault and Derrida in
particular would have been unthinkable outside the context provided by
these writers. In Politics, Writing, Mutilation, Allan Stoekl emphasizes
their role as precursors, but he also makes clear that they created a
distinctive body of work that must be read and evaluated on its own
terms.
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