Gilbert D. Chaitin

Gilbert D. Chaitin is professor emeritus of French and comparative literature at Indiana University Bloomington. "Gilbert D. Chaitin's readings of four novels of ideas are gripping and impressive. Even if one hasn't read the texts, one is persuaded by the intelligence and sophistication of his toon meer interpretations. One follows-clearly and without confusion-a complicated set of arguments about the relations between students and teachers, past and future, history and politics that are explored in the novels. At once philosophy, history, psychoanalysis and literary exegesis, the book is a tour de force." -Joan Scott, Harold F. Linder Professor of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study toon minder