The double life of Paul de Man / Evelyn Barish.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barish, Evelyn, 1935- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

De Man, Paul.

Critics--United States--Biography.

Critics.

United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 534 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2014]

Summary:

Describes the life of the Yale University professor behind the deconstruction movement, who at the time of his death was one of the most influential literary critics in America but was later revealed to be a Nazi collaborator and anti-Semite.

Contents:

Part 1 Belgium

1 The Butcher's Boy 3

2 Kalmthout: The Rules of the Game 15

3 Paul and his Teachers 29

4 Le Rouge Et Le Noir 39

5 Madeleine's Death 43

6 "My Father, Henri De Man" 47

7 A Broken Rudder 55

8 University: Taking Sides 68

9 The Didier Circle: Servants to Power 77

10 Anne 86

11 Exodus 93

12 Paul Collaborates 104

13 "The Jews in Present-Day Literature" 116

14 The Young Wolf 126

15 Drinking From Three Spouts 135

16 The Boulevard Had Two Sides 151

17 Icarus Falls 163

18 Hiding in Plain Sight 172

19 Hermès 183

20 The Palace of Justice 193

21 Despair, Rage, and the Pursuit of Shadows 203

Part 2 The American Years

22 "Books are the Keys to Magic Kingdoms" 215

23 The Radical Gentry 228

24 Making Friends 239

25 Recommended By Mary 250

26 Finding Pat 268

27 Bard 283

28 "Lies, and Lies, and Lies" 295

29 Bad Weather 306

30 Boston 324

31 Prince in Exile 333

32 Denounced 347

33 Return to Europe 361

34 Heidegger: A Place to Stand 367

35 "Excusez Le Jargon" 382

36 The Mirror 394

37 Mending the Net 402.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 448-517) and index.

ISBN:

9780871403261

0871403269

OCLC:

812254219