In Jacque Derrida's The End Of The Book And The Beginning Of Writing

In Jacque Derrida’s “The End of the Book and the Beginning of Writing,” and in Wallace Stevens’ “Sunday Morning,” movement between binary opposition is the center of their writings. While for Derrida, the motion is the precondition for the sustain of writing and speech, for Stevens movement creates meaning. In both, the movement is expressed in their style of writings. Their manners of writing force the readers to take part in the act of movement. Derrida claims that writing and speech function in the same way: “the signified always already functions as a signifier"; they are both traces (7). Writing and speech leave their traces in one another incessantly. For Derrida, the trace is the “written mark” of motion (9). Like writing, speech is also a written mark of the movement. Speech and writing are in an endless movement from one to the other. Writing is absent when speech announces itself as the primary, however, its trace is there; and when writing announces itself as primary, speech’s trace appears. When the trace of the writing is highlighted, suddenly the seemingly absent writing announces itself as primary; and the speech, which a minute ago was primary, gives its place to writing, but not without leaving its trace. It is in the seemingly absent position (or in the trace) that writing or speech announces itself as primary: speech or writing,“conceals and erases itself in its own production” (7). It is in the trace that they both conceal themselves, but it is also in