Not in the Mood
Adam Shatz: Derrida’s Secrets, 22 November 2012
Derrida: A Biography
by Benoît Peeters, translated by Andrew Brown.
Polity, 629 pp., £25, November 2012,978 0 7456 5615 1 Show More
by Benoît Peeters, translated by Andrew Brown.
Polity, 629 pp., £25, November 2012,
“... as if it were a cruel punishment. Yet he wrote constantly about himself, in what his biographer Benoît Peeters calls ‘memoirs that are not memoirs’. The first half of The Post Card (1980) is an epistolary novel composed of envois to an unnamed lover. His 1991 essay ‘Circumfession’, written in stream-of-consciousness as his mother lay ... ”