The autopsy she performed was meticulous, and it included exploring not just de Mans time in Belgium, during which he wrote fascist-pleasing articles and fleeced friends and relations. That alone could have made a book. She also followed his rise in New York literary society, how de Man the bookstore clerk impressed and befriended the writer Mary McCarthy and then somehow wormed his way into higher education, first at Bard and later moving to Yale, despite his lack of an undergraduate degree (a fact Barish uncovered in her research) and a worse-than-dubious past that, had any of his newfound admirers known the full story, might have dulled his shine. Wow he had no undergraduate degree!!! Though not uncommon...20th century R1s routinely had a few faculty with just a diploma or just a BA on the faculty but Paul de Man??? Jose David Saldivar
Posted on: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 14:50:57 +0000
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