"Rue Ordener," "Rue Labat "was first published in France in 1994. Sarah Kofman, best known as a philosopher and theoretician, died that same year. Ann Smock is an associate professor of French at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of "Double Dealing" (Nebraska 1986) and the translator of Blanchot's "The Writing of the Disaster" (Nebraska 1986).