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The Double Life of Paul De Man [Paperback] Barish, Evelyn
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- 8 pages of photographs
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- Liveright Publishing Corporation
- Style
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- ISBN
- 9781631490057
- Book Title
- Double Life of Paul De Man
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Publisher
- Liveright Publishing Corporation
- Publication Year
- 2015
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.3 in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism
- Topic
- Philosophers, Semiotics & Theory
- Item Width
- 5.7 in
- Item Weight
- 26.3 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 560 Pages
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A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year (Nonfiction)A landmark biography that reveals the secret past of one of the most influential academics of the twentieth century.
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Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
ISBN-10
1631490052
ISBN-13
9781631490057
eBay Product ID (ePID)
202441067
Product Key Features
Book Title
Double Life of Paul De Man
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Philosophers, Semiotics & Theory
Publication Year
2015
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism
Number of Pages
560 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9 in
Item Height
1.3 in
Item Width
5.7 in
Item Weight
26.3 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pn75.D45
Reviews
The Double Life of Paul de Man revives the man and his fall. This time, we get a story of the professor not just as a young collaborator, but as a scheming careerist, an embezzler and forger who fled Belgium in order to avoid prison, a bigamist who abandoned his first three children, a deadbeat who left many rents and hotel bills unpaid, a liar who wormed his way into Harvard by falsifying records, a cynic who used people shamelessly... Compelling... Picaresque., [De Man's] story, the story of a concealed past, was almost too perfect a synecdoche for everything that made people feel puzzled, threatened, or angry about literary theory. Evelyn Barish's new biography, The Double Life of Paul de Man (Liveright), is an important update on the story... [Barish] has an amazing tale to tell. In her account, all guns are smoking... Fascinating., A riveting biography of master confidence man Paul de Man (1919-1983), manipulator of the facts and influential literary instructor--a character both preposterous and irresistible.... An extraordinary story of a complex personality presented with a wise dose of irony and respect., [A] painstaking and probing account... Ultimately, a mark of Barish's achievement is that, by the end of her story, de Man confounds and eludes us no less than he did his contemporaries., A page-turner, The Double Life of Paul de Man is a brilliant piece of writing--dispassionate in its analysis, moving in its vision of a tortured man., Impressively researched... Carefully documented... The story Barish tells is riveting. The de Man family closet was so packed with skeletons that they would have had to spill out into the living room., Evelyn Barish tells us exactly why Paul de Man, a pioneer of Theory, should have favoured notions about the impossibility of an objective narrative or a fixed personality. Viewed objectively, the narrative of his own life was the story of a cheat and a liar; and he made up his personality as he went along. Yet he fooled one high-level American college after another into treating him as a genius. This is one of the most daunting portraits of a literary charlatan since A.J.A. Symons wrote the life of Baron Corvo., In this stunning biography...readers will marvel at how successfully de Man hid his misdeeds behind the luminous persona of a brilliant critical theorist, repeatedly using the plausibility of past lies to leverage yet larger new prevarications...An astonishing exposé., In this stunning biography...readers will marvel at how successfully de Man hid his misdeeds behind the luminous persona of a brilliant critical theorist, repeatedly using the plausibility of past lies to leverage yet larger new prevarications...An astonishing expos.
Copyright Date
2015
Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
801.95092
Dewey Edition
23
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