This memoir is less a chronicle of the life of a leading scholar
and critic of matters French than a series of differently angled
fragments, each with its attendant surprise, in what one
commentator has called Jeffrey Mehlman's "amour vache"--his injured
and occasionally injurious love--for France and the French. The
reader will encounter masters of the art of reading in these pages,
the exhilaration elicited by their achievements, and the unexpected
(and occasionally unsettling) resonances those achievements have
had in the author's life. With all its idiosyncrasies, "Adventures
in the French Trade" depicts an intellectual generation in ways
that will attract not only people who recall the heady days of the
rise and reign of French theory but also those who do not. This
provocative book should be of interest to students of intellectual
history, literary criticism, Jewish studies, the history of
American academia, and the genre of the memoir itself.
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