Derrida: A Biography

The École Normale Supérieure 1952–1956 77 I’m sure that these weeks of rest will have done you good. I was sad to see you so tir ...

78 Jackie 1930–1962 me some good, but I’m washed out and I hardly dare imagine that I’ll get through these exams okay.’^41 The s ...

The École Normale Supérieure 1952–1956 79 nature of this absurd exam, and the relentlessness of the jury. I can see from where y ...

5 A Year in America 1956–1957 Every year, there are student exchanges between Harvard and the École Normale Supérieure. Jean Pri ...

A Year in America 1956–1957 81 together, which has been for me the newest thing in my whole life, I feel I’ve been caught up in ...

82 Jackie 1930–1962 At the end of August, an offi cial from Harvard told Derrida that he had found a job as an au pair for Margu ...

A Year in America 1956–1957 83 detail go unanswered, in the way that he would later make his own in philosophical polemics. Geor ...

84 Jackie 1930–1962 and the work wasn’t tiring. Jackie lived on the campus, in the Graduate Center, in a modern building, but it ...

A Year in America 1956–1957 85 already loved the city, ‘which has a “soul” by being so monstrously beautiful, all on the outside ...

86 Jackie 1930–1962 the 10th division of parachutists. In spite of the aggressive surveil- lance to which the city, including th ...

A Year in America 1956–1957 87 you outside the Lycée Chaptal, down in the dark, before going to see the Dialogue des Carmélites, ...

88 Jackie 1930–1962 blows in hurricanes.’ The only class he had any time for was one on modern logic, in which he was learning ‘ ...

A Year in America 1956–1957 89 Straight after the agrégation, I remember going to see Jean Hyppolite and telling him: ‘I want to ...

90 Jackie 1930–1962 a steady downpour, this morning, at dawn, I saw the livid corpses of my comrades, stiff and bloodied; I saw ...

A Year in America 1956–1957 91 when they left home. So, on 9 June 1957, Jackie and Marguerite married in Cambridge, with their f ...

6 The Soldier of Koléa 1957–1959 The newly married couple spent a few days in Paris, where Jackie was unpleasantly surprised to ...

The Soldier of Koléa 1957–1959 93 been kept open for him thanks to the good offi ces of his father. ‘You see, I’m really lucky a ...

94 Jackie 1930–1962 it all, the dogs in the barracks started barking every time Jackie passed by. ‘They take me for an Arab,’ he ...

The Soldier of Koléa 1957–1959 95 Bianco had just been gripped by the book La Question,* written by one of Maurice Audin’s compa ...

96 Jackie 1930–1962 anonymous letters, thought police. That morning, I hadn’t been forgiven for suddenly leaving a group that wa ...