Scraps - Couverture souple

Leiris, Michel

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 080185489X ISBN 13 : 9780801854897

Editeur : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997

Synopsis

"I read with fervor the literary works of Michel Leiris and in particular the four volumes of 'Rules of the Game'...He is incontestably one of the greatest writers of the century."--Claude Livi-Strauss In this second volume of his acclaimed four-volume autobiography, 'Rules of the Game'--now available for the first time in English--Leiris comes to terms with self-reflection as disillusionment. In the midst of doubts about his own motives in writing an autobiography, he recalls that life, after all, has delights worth remembering: sights at the end of the world and the beginning of time, palm trees, breadfruit trees, colossal ferns. But even these things surrounded people living in miserable conditions. What could be said of human life, or of his own life, when his memory was unreliable, his eyesight failing, his mood in the bottom of a hole? "In Leiris's' Rules of the Game' Volume 2, I found again those qualities that had riveted me in Volume 1: those spirals of words coiling in on themselves and unrolling again into infinity, drilling onto the abysses of the past and the heart, yet glittering there in broad daylight, reflecting from image to image toward a secret that vanishes at the very instant it seems it must appear, the search having no other outcome than itself in the slow revolution of its thousand mirrors."--Simone de Beauvoir

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Eminent poet, essayist, anthropologist, art critic, and author of over twenty books, Michel Leiris (1901-1990) is one of the most important French writers of the twentieth century. He deeply influenced Livi-Strauss and Foucault, and was a member of the celebrated group that included Bataille, Jacob, Picasso, de Beauvoir, Gris, Cisaire, and Mirs. 'Biffures' ['Scratches'], volume 1 of his four-part autobiography, was first published in 1948, and is also available in translation from Johns Hopkins. 'Fourbis' ['Scraps'], volume 2, first appeared in 1955. Lydia Davis has translated more than 25 books, including works by Sartre, Maurice Blanchot, Michel Butor, and Georges Simenon. Recipient of Ingram Merrill Foundation and NEA fellowships, and a Whiting Writers Award, she is the author of a short story collection, 'Break It Down', and a novel, 'The End of the Story'.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Date d'édition: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 080185489X
• ISBN 13: 9780801854897
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible