As biographer of Jacques Derrida, Benoît Peeters admits he ‘often felt dizzy’ with the task of writing the biography Derrida. Yet, in the short time since its appearance in 2010, with its translation to English still to come next year, it has already become one of the classics for those first venturing into Derrida’s thinking. It wasn’t the first book by Peeters; in fact, he’s responsible for many titles, including biographical material about Paul Valéry and Hergé, and he is best known for his series of graphic novels, Les Cités Obscures. Peeters proved himself to be a very conscious biographer.