A signal event for literary and cultural studies in the Englishspeakingworld. As crucial essays on individual authors as a major work of literarytheory as an im... » 

A signal event for literary and cultural studies in the Englishspeakingworld. As crucial essays on individual authors as a major work of literarytheory as an important means of access to the 1940s in French culture as anexemplary work combining reading and theoryit is of great importance to ustoday.J. Hillis Miller University of California Irvine This collection ofessays and reviews from the 1940s is about the fiery part of literarylanguage that burns through the aesthetic illusions and the easy referentialityof everyday language. . . . This collection is indepensable to any attempt tounderstand the years between HeideggerBenjamin and DerridaMan.Choice «