Derrida: A Biography

The Negus 1930–1942 17 capital and drive them out into the fi elds like rabid dogs.’^21 And so, shortly after the crushing defea ...

18 Jackie 1930–1962 November 1941, the name of Jacques’s brother René appeared on the list of excluded pupils: he would lose out ...

2 Under the Sun of Algiers 1942–1949 Entry into adolescence happened all of a sudden, one October morning in 1942. On the fi rst ...

20 Jackie 1930–1962 insults from the children, my classmates, the kids in the street, and sometimes threats or blows aimed at th ...

Under the Sun of Algiers 1942–1949 21 identifi cation’. He hated this Jewish school right from the start, and ‘skived off ’ as o ...

22 Jackie 1930–1962 two boys never wearied of observing the soldiers queuing up outside the establishment. Another favourite pas ...

Under the Sun of Algiers 1942–1949 23 rickety barracks, and since the men teachers had almost all been called up, retired teache ...

24 Jackie 1930–1962 closer models: René, his older brother, was also an excellent, passionate player; as goalie for Red Star, he ...

Under the Sun of Algiers 1942–1949 25 adolescence. He had the impression that her life was easy, while his father was a martyr t ...

26 Jackie 1930–1962 talk with a man who, he often said, opened up to him more easily, and who called on him to ‘witness the lack ...

Under the Sun of Algiers 1942–1949 27 For a young Algérois like me, cinema still represented an extraordinary form of travel. Yo ...

28 Jackie 1930–1962 even further away from the Judaism of his childhood. He loved Nietzsche as much as Rousseau, however dissimi ...

Under the Sun of Algiers 1942–1949 29 tone knowing that it was never really mine; I was respond- ing to what was expected of me ...

30 Jackie 1930–1962 baccalaureate, he was really upset. He worked hard all summer, and got into the habit of rising very early, ...

Under the Sun of Algiers 1942–1949 31 It was in my fi nal year that I really started reading philosophy; and since this was when ...

32 Jackie 1930–1962 of girls changed the atmosphere in class: relationships between us were more polite than in the classes we’d ...

Under the Sun of Algiers 1942–1949 33 of anguish, of the experience of nothingness prior to negation, suited my personal sense o ...

34 Jackie 1930–1962 view, Sartre’s work was not great literature either, Nausea apart, but it remained ‘unrivalled’ for its impa ...

3 The Walls of Louis-le-Grand 1949–1952 At the end of September 1949 came the feared and longed-for moment of departure for Pari ...

36 Jackie 1930–1962 Had he been to the Club Saint-Germain and the Vieux Colombier? True, all those more or less mythical hotspot ...