I had been invited by Michael Riffaterre (1924-2006), Professor of French Literature and Linguistics at Columbia University in New York. He was then presiding over the North American association of friends of Dada and surrealism, while I was his French counterpart. One can no longer imagine how he manifested himself then, such a great patron of French studies! He had put me up in the best hotel on Park Avenue, and had me speak before a select audience of French speakers. His predominant position, his way of being was explained by the fact that, as the son of a Jewish deputy from the Creuse, he had not been able to bear the Vichy measures and had exiled himself to the USA where he had made his entire career, up to the highest positions. This is to say that receiving an invitation from him was an honor. When leaving him, I therefore offered him this unpublished article which must have reminded him of many events, he who had fought in the ranks of the French army. He immediately published it in the Romanic Review, where he had the upper hand.

Romanic Review New York: Columbia University, Dept. of French and Romance Philology, etc.

Read my article Rewriting as Poetics or the Same and the Other
The same text was reprinted in: H. Béhar, Littéruptures, Lausanne, L'Age d'Homme, 1988, pp. 153-168.