Abstract

The aim of this paper is to interpret the meaning of the following sentence Il n’y a pas de hors-texte and to rethink its possible interpretations. At the beginning I consider the interpretations claiming that by this sentence Derrida denied the possibility to refer to something outside of it. This interpretation is suggested by its English and Slovak translations. I propose here, as a result of my interpretation, a new translation of this sentence to Slovak. I consider some problems of Slovak translation in comparison to two English translations of this book by Gayatri Ch. Spivak and to the original text as well.