It is clear that this 'return' of language is not a sudden interruption in our culture; it is not the irruptive discovery of some long buried evidence; it does not indicate a folding back of thought upon itself, in the movement by which it emancipates itself from all content, or a narcissism occurring within a literature freeing itself at last from what it has to say in order to speak henceforth only about the fact that it is language stripped naked.