Notes
This essay was written for the colloquium “L'Autobiographie en procès” organized by Philippe Lejeune at the Centre de Recherches Interdisciplinaires sur les Textes Modernes: Groupe Récits de vie, Paris X‐Nanterre. The proceedings oF the colloquium, including the original French version of “Paul de Man and autobiography” have been published in the journal RITM. We are grateful to Philippe Lejeune for permission to publish an English‐language version of this article.