Quote of the day
The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).
Paul de Man

Born: December 6, 1919
Died: December 21, 1983 (aged 64)
Bio: Paul de Man, born Paul Adolph Michel Deman, was a Belgian-born literary critic and literary theorist.
Known for:
- Blindness and insight (1983)
- Allegories of reading (1979)
- The Resistance to Theory
- Aesthetic ideology
- The rhetoric of romanticism (1956)
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