Fibrils: The Rules of the Game, Volume 3 Volume 3 Contributor(s): Leiris, Michel (Author), Davis, Lydia (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0300212399 ISBN-13: 9780300212396 Publisher: Yale University Press OUR PRICE: $27.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2017 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures - Biography & Autobiography | Historical - History | Modern - 20th Century |
Dewey: 848.912 |
LCCN: 2016944312 |
Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters |
Physical Information: 1.1" H x 6.3" W x 9.1" (1.25 lbs) 256 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Cultural Region - French |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: A major publishing event: the third volume of Michel Leiris's renowned autobiography, now available in English for the first time in a brilliant translation by Lydia Davis A beloved and versatile author and ethnographer, French intellectual Michel Leiris is often ranked in the company of Proust, Gide, Sartre, and Camus, yet his work remains largely unfamiliar to English-language readers. This brilliant translation of Fibrils, the third volume of his monumental autobiographical project The Rules of the Game, invites us to discover why L vi-Strauss proclaimed him "incontestably one of the greatest writers of the century." Leiris's autobiographical essay, a thirty-five-year project, is a primary document of the examined life in the twentieth century. In Fibrils, Leiris reconciles literary commitment with social/political engagement. He recounts extensive travel and anthropological work, including a 1955 visit to Mao's China. He also details his suicidal "descent into Hell," when the guilt over an extramarital affair becomes unbearable. A ruthless self-examiner, Leiris seeks to invent a new way of remembering, probe the mechanisms of memory and explore the way a life can be told. |