Paul de Man. Allegories of Reading: Figural Language in Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rilke and Proust. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1979. 305 pp. A Review.

PAUL de Man’s Allegories of Reading deals with deconstructive criticism, a tradition of literary criticism which is closely related with Jacques Derrida and Harold Bloom. Paul de Man discusses the unreliability of language, an idea prevalent amongst deconstructionism. He claims that, because of this unreliability, reading is an impossible activity. Paul de Man argues that […]