Texts by Paul de Man, 1955

Compiled by

Eddie Yeghiayan

"The Inward Generation." Cambridge Review (Winter 1955), 1(2):41-47.
Reprinted in Critical Writings, 1953-1978 (1989), pp. 12-17.

"Les Exégèses de Hölderlin par Martin Heidegger." Revue of Else Buddeberg's "Heidegger und die Dichtung Hölderlin, Rilke." Deutsche Viertseljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte (1952), 26(4):293-330, and Beda Alleman's Hölderlin und Heidegger (1954). Critique (September-October 1955), 12(100-101):800-819.
Cover-title "Hölderlin et Heidegger."
Translated by Wlad Godzich as "Heidegger's Exegeses of Hölderlin" in Blindness and Insight (1971), pp. 246-266.

"Le Néant poétique (commentaire d'un sonnet hermétique de Mallarmé)." Monde Nouveau (April 1955), 10(88):63-75.
Translated by Richard Howard into English as "Poetic Nothingness: On a Hermetic Sonnet by Mallarmé" in Critical Writings, 1953-1978 (1989), pp. 18-29.

"Tentation de la permanence." Monde Nouveau (October 1955), 10(93):49-61.
Translated by Don Latimer into English as "The Temptation of Permanence" (1983).
Reprinted in Critical Writings, 1953-1978 (1989), pp. 30-40.