In the EventAssuming the burden of reading imposed by the correlation of the order of language and the order of events, this book argues that the possibility of reading and writing history is tied to the endurance of traces of the past and their coming to legibility, allegorically, at a given time. Through attentive readings of a range of textsincluding theoretical writings, diaries, newspaper reports, and "live" television broadcastsIn the Event elaborates the