Chapter Publicly Available

Contents Preface

Jeffrey Mehlman

Published by

View more publications by Stanford University Press

To Publisher Page

Adventures in the French Trade

This chapter is in the book Adventures in the French Trade

© 2020 Stanford University Press, Redwood City

© 2020 Stanford University Press, Redwood City

Chapters in this book

Frontmatter i
Content ix
Contents Preface xi
1. Beginning and End 1
2. Initiation: Bécheron 3
cities
3. New York/Angoulême 17
4. Boston/Vichy 21
fathers
5. Hugo 2000: Fiction 37
6. Kandahar 2001: Fact 45
teachers 53
7. Chiasmus 55
8. Derrida 72
9. Bellow in Boston 80
10. Antinomian Steiner 84
11. A Professor Retires 100
students
12. Genet in New Haven: Repercussions and Resonances 105
13. Mother Harvard 113
14. The Heart of the Matter: A Graduation Address 115
semblables et freres
15. Louis Wolfson 123
16. Walter Benjamin 135
17. Afrancesado: Coda in Buenos Aires 154
Acknowledgments 159
Notes 161

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780804775076-001

Chapters in this book

Frontmatter i
Content ix
Contents Preface xi
1. Beginning and End 1
2. Initiation: Bécheron 3
cities
3. New York/Angoulême 17
4. Boston/Vichy 21
fathers
5. Hugo 2000: Fiction 37
6. Kandahar 2001: Fact 45
teachers 53
7. Chiasmus 55
8. Derrida 72
9. Bellow in Boston 80
10. Antinomian Steiner 84
11. A Professor Retires 100
students
12. Genet in New Haven: Repercussions and Resonances 105
13. Mother Harvard 113
14. The Heart of the Matter: A Graduation Address 115
semblables et freres
15. Louis Wolfson 123
16. Walter Benjamin 135
17. Afrancesado: Coda in Buenos Aires 154
Acknowledgments 159
Notes 161

Institutional Access

How does access work?

Downloaded on 28.9.2025 from https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9780804775076-001/html