From: Fmacke4sph-AT-aol.com
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:08:38 EST
Subject: Re:  archaeology was Bad Writing?


Clare O'Farrell writes

"I think Raymond Roussel would have to be Foucault's least read book 
(with good reason I might add)!!"

It's interesting.  We each have our personal favorites (and least favorites)
in everything.  Death and the Labyrinth:  The World of Raymond Roussel was
highly recommended to me by my dissertation director ten years when I was also
reading Archaeology.  He had studied with Dreyfus at Berkeley (and some with
Foucault during his last visit to California).  He remarked that I would find
Death and the Labyrinth helpful as an example of the sort of poststructuralist
semiology (for lack of a better term) that Foucault was proposing in
Archaeology.  I liked it and, I believe, saw what was going on.  Maybe it
helped that my director was walking me through both.  Maybe I was influenced
tremendously by his opinion.  (I will of course vehemently deny both
accusations to my biographer.)  

Just curious, Clare (and others on the list):  What is your feeling about the
Roussel book?

Sincerely,
Frank