Notes to pp. 108–123 551
3 Letter from Gérard Genette to Derrida, 14 September 1959.
4 Gérard Genette, Bardadrac (Paris: Le Seuil, coll. ‘Fiction & Cie’,
2006), p. 67.
5 Letter from Derrida to Micheline Lévy, 7 January 1960.
6 Interviews with Albert Daussin, Paul Cottin, and Njoh Mouellé.
7 Letter from Jean Hyppolite to Derrida, 11 March 1960.
8 Interview with Gérard Genette. The episode is also related in his book
Codicille. Unfortunately, I have not managed to fi nd the text of the
speech given by Derrida.
9 Letter from Maurice de Gandillac to Derrida, 24 August 1960.
Chapter 8 Towards Independence 1960–19621 Interview with Marguerite Derrida. These communities would com-
pletely disappear after independence and Leroi-Gourhan would soon
be telling his student: ‘But my dear girl, the fi eld you are studying is
slipping away beneath your feet.’
2 Letter from Michel Monory to Derrida, n.d. (September 1960).
3 Letter from Derrida to Jean Bellemin-Noël, n.d. (December 1960).
4 Derrida, ‘Discours de réception de la Légion d’honneur’, 1992,
unpublished, IMEC archives.
5 Derrida, ‘La parole’, p. 21.
6 Interview with Françoise Dastur.
7 Interview with Jean Ristat.
8 Letter from Derrida to Pierre Nora, 27 April 1961.
9 Letter from Pierre Nora to Derrida, 22 June 1961.
10 Letter from Derrida to Pierre Nora, 30 June 1961.
11 Letter from Derrida to Pierre Nora, 4 August 1961.
12 Letter from Jean Hyppolite to Derrida, 23 October 1961.
13 Letter from Derrida to Paul Ricoeur, 24 November 1961.
14 Letter from Paul Ricoeur to Derrida, 27 December 1961.
15 Letter from Louis Althusser, 9 January 1962.
16 Letter from Derrida to Louis Althusser, 15 January 1962.
17 See Jordi and Pervillé, eds, Alger 1940–1962, pp. 250–7.
18 Interview with Martine Meskel.
19 Interviews with René and Évelyne Derrida.
20 Interviews with Janine Meskel-Derrida, Pierre Meskel, René and
Évelyne Derrida.
21 Marcello Fabri, ‘Nostalgérie’, in Alger 1860–1939 (Paris: Autrement,
coll. ‘Mémoires’ no. 55, 2001), p. 94.
22 Derrida, ‘Les mots autobiographiques – pourquoi pas Sartre’, 23
March 1987, interview published in Japan, IMEC archives.
23 ‘Cultures et dépendances’, France 3, 22 June 2004.
24 ‘Les voix d’Artaud’.