From Derrida to Chardin For an Archaeology of the Creative Process in Point Omega (DeLillo)

According to John D. Caputo, the source of Derrida’s interest in negative theology is “the cut [...] that opens it to others, the wound that will not let it close over” (The Prayers and Tears of Jacques Derrida, Indiana UP, 1997, p. 42). This essay explores this reading of negative theology according to deconstruction by looking at its manifestation in postmodern writer DeLillo’s Point Omega, a novel that evidences such cut in language and reality, opening up onto the “wholly other”.