Eugenio Donato (17 August 1937 – 19 September 1983) ^[1] was an Armenian-Italian deconstructionist, literary critic, and "philosophical critic". Raised in Egypt, and educated in France, he played an important role in teaching Americans how to read post-structural theory.

He edited, with Richard A. Macksey, the book The Structuralist Controversy: The Languages of Criticism and the Sciences of Man.

Donato died on September 19, 1983, aged 56. ^[2]

See also

• Rodolphe Gasché (he currently holds the Eugenio Donato Chair of Comparative Literature at the University at Buffalo)
• Jacques Derrida
• Critical theory
• Deconstruction
• Gustave Flaubert

References

Sources

• Library of Congress
• Paris to the Moon (2000) Gopnik, Adam: Vintage Publishing ISBN  0-375-75823-2

External links

Texts

• http://www.worldcatlibraries.org/search?q=au%3AEugenio+Donato&qt=hot_author
• http://www.allbookstores.com/author/Eugenio_Donato.html

Archival collections

• Guide to the Eugenio Donato Papers MS.C.009. Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California.
• Guide to the Marli Shoop Audio Recordings of Eugenio Donato and Wolfgang Iser Lectures. Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California.