02475nam 22004575 450 991095730650332120251117090134.00-300-22784-110.12987/9780300227840(CKB)3710000001085023(MiAaPQ)EBC4815352(DE-B1597)540652(DE-B1597)9780300227840(OCoLC)1143811277(EXLCZ)99371000000108502320200229h20172017 fg engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierScraps The Rules of the Game, Volume 2 /Michel LeirisNew Haven, CT :Yale University Press,[2017]©20171 online resource (249 pages)The Margellos World Republic of Letters0-300-21238-0 Frontmatter --Contents --Mors --Sports Notebook --"Look! Already the Angel . . . "The second volume of Michel Leiris's hugely influential four-volume autobiographical essay, available to English-language readers in a brilliant and sensitive translation by Lydia Davis One of the most versatile and beloved French intellectuals of the twentieth century, Michel Leiris reconceives the autobiography as a literary experiment that sheds light on the mechanisms of memory and on the way the unconnected events of a life become connected through invented narrative. In this volume, the second in his four-volume epic autobiographical enterprise, Leiris merges "idian events with profound philosophical self-exploration. He also wrangles with the disillusionment that accompanies his own self-reflection. In the midst of struggling with his own motives for writing an autobiographical essay, he comes to the revelation that life, after all, has aspects worth remembering even if moments of beauty are bookended by misery. Yet what can be said of human life, of his own life, when his memory is unreliable, his eyesight is failing, and his mood is despairing?Margellos world republic of letters book.Poets, FrenchPoets, French.848/.912092Leiris Michel1901-1990,authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut143722Davis Lydia801181DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910957306503321Scraps4490915UNINA