578 Notes to pp. 392–399
30 Interview with Jean-Marie Apostolidès. For further details on the
situation of Belgium under the Occupation, see Apostolidès, The
Metamorphoses of Tintin, tr. by Jocelyn Hoy (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford
University Press, 2010). Perhaps I can also refer the reader to my own
book, Hergé, Son of Tintin, tr. by Tina A. Kover (Baltimore: Johns
Hopkins University Press, 2012), which discusses at length Le Soir volé
and its collaborators.
31 Entry on Henri de Man in the Biographie nationale publiée par
l’Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Balgique,
vol. XXXVIII, fasc. 2, pp. 535–554 (Brussels: Éditions Émile Bruylant,
1974).
32 Zeev Sternhel, Neither Right Nor Left: Fascist Ideology in France, tr.
by David Maisel (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986), p. 141.
The fi rst edition of this work was published in 1983, by Le Seuil.
33 Hartman, A Scholar’s Tale, p. 82.
34 Quoted by David Lehman in ‘Deconstructing de Man’s life’,
Newsweek, 15 February 1988, p. 63. According to Jeff rey Mehlman,
this sentence had been truncated and distorted by the journalist, as
he explains in his book Adventures in the French Trade. Fragments
Toward a Life (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2010), pp.
78–9. (In an analysis of the texts published by Maurice Blanchot in
his youth, Jeff rey Mehlman had already attacked Derrida in 1986 in
his article ‘Writing and Deference: The politics of literary adulation’
(Representations no. 15, summer 1986 – this article was published in
French translation in L’Infi ni, no. 22, 1988).
35 ‘Like the sound of the sea’ was fi rst published in her translation in
Critical Inquiry, vol. 14, no. 3, Spring 1988.
36 Ibid., p. 172.
37 Ibid., p. 201.
38 Ibid., pp. 206–7.
39 Ibid., pp. 165–6.
40 Ibid., p. 259 n. 44.
41 Ibid., p. 257 n. 44.
42 David Carroll, ‘The sorrow and the pity of friendship and politics: An
open letter to Jacques Derrida’, unpublished, Irvine Archives. Another
version of this text would eventually be published as ‘The temptation
of fascism and the question of literature: Justice, sorrow, and political
error (an open letter to Jacques Derrida)’, Cultural Critique no. 15,
Spring 1990.
43 Interview with Avital Ronell.
44 Letter from Arnold I. Davidson to Derrida, 26 January 1989.
45 Jacques Derrida, ‘Biodegradables: Seven diary fragments’, Critical
Inquiry vol. 15, no. 4, summer 1989, pp. 812–73.
46 ‘Papers’ of the CIPh no. 11: ‘Autour de Paul de Man’. All the docu-
ments relating to this very complex debate are freely available online:
http://www.ciph.org/fi chiers_papiers/papiers11.pdf.
47 Jürgen Habermas, The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity. Twelve
Lectures, tr. by Frederick Lawrence (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press,
1987), p. 193.
48 Ibid., p. 161.