3. New York/Angoulême

Chapters in this book

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