02621nam 22004575 450 991082684330332120230809222918.00-300-22783-310.12987/9780300227833(CKB)3710000001085036(MiAaPQ)EBC4815340(DE-B1597)540163(DE-B1597)9780300227833(OCoLC)1143799732(EXLCZ)99371000000108503620200229h20172017 fg engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierScratches The Rules of the Game, Volume 1 /Michel LeirisNew Haven, CT :Yale University Press,[2017]©20171 online resource (273 pages) illustrationsThe Margellos World Republic of Letters0-300-21237-2 Frontmatter --Contents --Translators Note --"... Reusement!" --Songs --In Court Dress --Alphabet --Persephone --"Once Upon a Time . . . " --Sunday --The Trumpet-DrumA dazzling translation by Lydia Davis of the first volume of Michel Leiris's masterwork, perhaps the most important French autobiographical enterprise of the twentieth century Michel Leiris, a French intellectual whose literary works inspired high praise from the likes of Simone de Beauvoir and Claude Lévi-Strauss, began the first volume of his autobiographical project at the age of 40. It was the beginning of an endeavor that ultimately required 35 years and three additional volumes. In Volume 1, Scratches, Leiris proposes to discover a savoir vivre, a mode of living that would have a place for both his poetics and his personal morality. "I can scarcely see the literary use of speech as anything but a means of sharpening one's consciousness in order to be more-and in a better way-alive,"; he declares. He begins the project of uncovering memories, returning to moments and images of childhood-his father's recording machine, the letters of the alphabet coming to life-and then of his later life-Paris under the Occupation, a journey to Africa, and a troubling fear of death.Margellos world republic of letters book.Poets, FrenchPoets, French.848.91209Leiris Michel1901-1990,authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut143722Davis Lydia801181DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910826843303321Scratches4021891UNINA