Rejected Poetry

[Richard Romeo]

By Prof. Richard Klein 

Richard Klein is a Professor of Romance Studies and was selected to the
French Order of Arts & Letters in 2003. He is the author of Cigarettes
Are Sublime and Eat Fat. 

I was remarkably well prepared to encounter Derrida in the late '60s. I
was just finishing graduate studies in French (at Yale), but it was my
Cornell undergraduate education (Class of '62) that had trained me. I
had had seminars here and wrote an honor thesis with Paul de Man, who
was then Chair of Comparative Literature. I had heard lectures by M.H.
Abrams and Vladimir Nabokov. I had taken philosophy classes with Norman
Malcom and John Rawls. I was an editor of the Cornell Writer and a
budding critic who regularly rejected the poetry of his fellow student,
Thomas Pynchon.

 

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http://www.cornellsun.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2004/10/13/416c9bac290bc

 

 

Richard 

 

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