Slow Deconstruction
David Bromwich, 7 October 1993
Romanticism and Contemporary Criticism: The Gauss Seminars and Other Papers
by Paul de Man, edited by E.S. Burt, Kevin Newmark and Andrzej Warminski.
Johns Hopkins, 212 pp., £21.50, March 1993,0 8018 4461 4 Show More
by Paul de Man, edited by E.S. Burt, Kevin Newmark and Andrzej Warminski.
Johns Hopkins, 212 pp., £21.50, March 1993,
Serenity in Crisis: A Preface to Paul de Man 1939-1960
by Ortwin de Graef.
Nebraska, 240 pp., £29.95, January 1993,0 8032 1694 7 Show More
by Ortwin de Graef.
Nebraska, 240 pp., £29.95, January 1993,
“... The guru differs from the sage in point of approachability. To experience the sage, you must have read his work; the meeting may come later, and may disappoint. With the guru, personal contact matters most and the first encounter must succeed; the writing need only offer a clue to the presence. Paul de Man said enough memorable things to be quoted like scripture by the susceptible, and one of the things he said was about quotation: Citer, c’est penser ... ”
