seeking nourishment | Sarah Kofman’s Rue Ordener, Rue Labat

(content warning: discussion of eating disorder.)1   Ann Smock, friend of French thinker Sarah Kofman and translator of Kofman's memoir Rue Ordener, Rue Labat, visited my Comparative Literature seminar on memory and historical trauma. My first thought was that I really want a friend like Ann Smock—she spoke so affectionately and with deep insight into her…