Nothing but the Worst
Michael Wood: Paul de Man, 8 January 2015
The Paul de Man Notebooks
edited by Martin McQuillan.
Edinburgh, 357 pp., £80, April 2014,978 0 7486 4104 8 Show More
edited by Martin McQuillan.
Edinburgh, 357 pp., £80, April 2014,
The Double Life of Paul de Man
by Evelyn Barish.
Norton, 534 pp., £25, September 2014,978 0 87140 326 1 Show More
by Evelyn Barish.
Norton, 534 pp., £25, September 2014,
“... be confused. I’m not going to de-confuse you. I’m going to give you a more oblique reading.’ Martin McQuillan, editor of The Paul de Man Notebooks, has certainly taken this tip. These are not, as the title might suggest, Paul de Man’s notebooks. A set of such books exists relating to a series of seminars de Man taught in Zurich, Cornell, Johns ... ”
