02630nam 22004575 450 991079274820332120230809222951.00-300-22785-X10.12987/9780300227857(CKB)3710000001085037(MiAaPQ)EBC4815347(DE-B1597)540626(DE-B1597)9780300227857(OCoLC)1143839437(EXLCZ)99371000000108503720200229h20172017 fg engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierFibrils The Rules of the Game, Volume 3 /Michel LeirisNew Haven, CT :Yale University Press,[2017]©20171 online resource (252 pages)The Margellos World Republic of Letters0-300-21239-9 Frontmatter --CONTENTS --TRANSLATOR'S NOTE --La Fière, la fière . . . --I --II --III --IVA 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 Lévi-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.Margellos world republic of letters book.Poets, FrenchPoets, French.848/.91209Leiris Michel1901-1990,authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut143722Davis Lydia801181DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910792748203321Fibrils3749386UNINA