ABSTRACT
The reading of the references made by Derrida and Kristeva to each other intersects with a story, that of a split (one of several) within the Tel Quel group-a rupture, an event, and it is no accident that these terms crop up again here. The story is not told in their texts, but their descriptions of the period when they both contributed to the journal are telling and tellingly different. And what they tell us most are not morsels of gossip from the Paris intellectual scene but ways of theorizing difference.
