As we French say, "nul n'est prophète en son pays". I'd never heard of Derrida until I read mention of him in some American academic journal. Writers are the mo

As we French say, "nul n'est prophète en son pays". I'd never heard of Derrida until I read mention of him in some American academic journal. Writers are the most esteemed of artists in France, but that doesn't mean the French take superficially brilliant nonsense seriously as anything but wordplay.