Titanic LightNotoriety struck the Belgian born literary critic Paul de Man more than once. First came his fame as one of the principaland most controversialtheorists 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