 | Paul De Man - Literary Criticism - 340 pages
...he invented and became Don Quixote: Valery achieved it when he conceived and became Monsieur Teste. The duplicity of the artist, the grandeur as well...recurrent theme closely linked with the theme of infamy. Perhaps its fullest treatment appears in the story "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote" in Labyrinths.... | |
 | Carlo Ginzburg - History - 1999 - 140 pages
...themes, "duplicity," in these terms: The creation of beauty thus begins with an act of duplicity . . . The duplicity of the artist, the grandeur as well...duplicity, belongs to man alone, marks him as essentially human.79 Was de Man speaking about Borges or through Borges? But here we are still on the relatively... | |
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The duplicity of the artist, the grandeur as well as the misery of his calling, is a recurrent theme closely linked with the theme of infamy. . . . The poetic impulse in all its perverse duplicity belongs to man alone, marks him as essentially human. 