French Lessons Quotes

“I remembered how de Man had said to us in class, ‘don’t confuse any of this literary theory with your lives’—how we hadn’t believed him, how we had wanted our criticism to tell us how to think and how to speak and how to live. De Man made literature matter more than anything in the world and then said it was only literature.”
― Alice Kaplan, French Lessons: A Memoir

“Nous nous sommes dévoilés.”
― Alice Kaplan, French Lessons: A Memoir