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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

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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

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