Adventures in the French Trade: Fragments Toward a Life (Cultural Memory in the Present)

by JeffreyMehlman (Author)

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  Paperback
  2010

  $27.61

  This memoir is less a chronicle of the life of a leading scholar/critic of matters French (and a key figure in the naturalization of French theory in English) than a series of differently angled fragments, episodes, each with its attendant surprise, in what one commentator has called his amour vache, his injured and occasionally injurious love, for France and the French.

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  Hardcover
  2010

  $123.65

  This memoir is less a chronicle of the life of a leading scholar/critic of matters French (and a key figure in the naturalization of French theory in English) than a series of differently angled fragments, episodes, each with its attendant surprise, in what one commentator has called his amour vache, his injured and occasionally injurious love, for France and the French.