This is an awesome little selection of French poems. I didn't like all of them - no, far from it - and not all of them are easy to learn by heart, but I could give the book 10 stars just for those 10 or so that I absolutely adored. They are of such incredible beauty that for a moment you feel as if ...
I enjoyed reading the other reviews on this book and empathized with those who found Derrida unnecessarily dense. His essay, "Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences," for example, though important, certainly lacks a riveting prose style.In my own (possibly simplistic) inter...