I. The directionality of meaning -- II. The rape of autumn or the rich and fuzzy life of meanings -- III. The modalities of the "Künstlerroman" -- IV. Literature and Husserl : a critique of noematic meaning -- V. Meaning as sense and Derrida's critique of the concept -- VI. The limits of Langue -- VII. Phrases in dispute : toward a semiotic differend -- VIII. A striptease of meaning on the ladder of discourse -- IX. Hypocrisis or reading as feigning -- X. The fictions of political discourse and the politics of reading.