[New Republic] Martin Peretz - In Wednesday's Times there was a review by Jeannette Catsoulis of two documentaries about Edward Said. Alas, it's clear that Catsoulis knows little about Said, almost nothing about his theories, and less about the conflict to which he added so much rancor and deceit. Said's life as published by himself is made up of facts, half-truths, and irrefutable but meticulously constructed lies. Said rushed into print with a memoir called Out of Place, after Justus Reid Weiner had published a painstakingly precise examination of Said's life in Commentary (September 1999). One is led to the conclusion that Said - whatever his manic genius - was a fraud.
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