Notoriety struck the Belgian-born literary critic Paul de Man more than once. First came his fame as one of the principal--and most controversial--theorists of deconstruction in the 1970s and early 1980s. After his death in 1983, notoriety struck a second time. In 1987, a Belgian scholar discovered that de Man had written in the early 1940s for several journals that collaborated with the Nazis during the German occupation of Belgium. The revelations...