This was my introduction to Derrida, well there is nothing like jumping in at the deep end!
I was quite surprised, though once I got going it helped me with my daily commute on the tram to work. I would strongly suggest anybody to sit down and persevere with this one, it will really help you getting the whole Derrida - Deconstruction thing down to a tee.

Taken from Amazon.co.uk:
Book Description:
“One of the major works in the development of contemporary criticism and philosophy.” — J. Hillis Miller, Yale University

Jacques Derrida’s revolutionary theories about deconstruction, phenomenology, psychoanalysis, and structuralism, first voiced in the 1960s, forever changed the face of European and American criticism. The ideas in De la grammatologie sparked lively debates in intellectual circles that included students of literature, philosophy, and the humanities, inspiring these students to ask questions of their disciplines that had previously been considered improper. Thirty years later, the immense influence of Derrida’s work is still igniting controversy, thanks in part to Gayatri Spivak’s translation, which captures the richness and complexity of the original. This corrected edition adds a new index of the critics and philosophers cited in the text and makes one of contemporary criticism’s most indispensable works even more accessible and usable.

About the Author

Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) taught at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University.