Derrida: A Biography

The Walls of Louis-le-Grand 1949–1952 37 ishly’, he noted in the margins of several of Derrida’s essays, and mercilessly crossed ...

38 Jackie 1930–1962 “pataouète”, the language of the working classes in Algiers, espe- cially the harbour fi shermen. His father ...

The Walls of Louis-le-Grand 1949–1952 39 lunch on Sundays, so as to get a good meal, even if we had to put up with some rather d ...

40 Jackie 1930–1962 as possible and almost immediately forgotten – quite the opposite of what your usual cinephile would watch. ...

The Walls of Louis-le-Grand 1949–1952 41 brilliant student considered by some to be ‘a prince of philosophy’, had been admitted ...

42 Jackie 1930–1962 make more eff ort’ was the comment for German.^13 As for Latin, he was poor at unseen translation and very w ...

The Walls of Louis-le-Grand 1949–1952 43 Whenever he could, Jackie went with his father on his rounds, especially to Kabylia, an ...

44 Jackie 1930–1962 In spite of these somewhat modernist tendencies, Maurice seems to have appreciated Derrida’s style less than ...

The Walls of Louis-le-Grand 1949–1952 45 collapse: he suff ered from insomnia, loss of appetite, and frequent nausea. In Decembe ...

46 Jackie 1930–1962 I’m not able to produce anything other than tears. [.. .] Weeping over the world, weeping for God. [.. .] I’ ...

The Walls of Louis-le-Grand 1949–1952 47 Jean Bellemin-Noël also got onto the case, sending the pro- grammes for the licence, as ...

48 Jackie 1930–1962 to be a ‘reliable, hard-working pupil’, in whom one could place ‘some hope’. In French, despite his ‘good at ...

The Walls of Louis-le-Grand 1949–1952 49 about Malebranche. Can come back when he is prepared to accept the rules and not invent ...

50 Jackie 1930–1962 of them. That’s the only way I can read.’^26 He would, however, remain faithful to some of the authors he me ...

The Walls of Louis-le-Grand 1949–1952 51 At the beginning of October 1952, Jackie fi nally returned to Paris. Before embarking o ...

52 Jackie 1930–1962 Louis-le-Grand: the food was better, healthier, and the atmo- sphere was pleasanter. Generally speaking, we ...

The Walls of Louis-le-Grand 1949–1952 53 as ‘human-reality’ suggested by Henry Corbin in 1938 and later popularized by Sartre in ...

54 Jackie 1930–1962 We still have the detailed account of the exam that Derrida fi nally passed, as he related it to Roger Pons, ...

The Walls of Louis-le-Grand 1949–1952 55 Castex smiled sadly, raising his eyes to the ceiling; Schérer pointed at his paper, say ...

56 Jackie 1930–1962 but this was commuted in 1946 to lifelong national disgrace, plus the confi scation of his property. At one ...