LEADER 02621nam 22004575 450 001 9910826843303321 005 20230809222918.0 010 $a0-300-22783-3 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300227833 035 $a(CKB)3710000001085036 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4815340 035 $a(DE-B1597)540163 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300227833 035 $a(OCoLC)1143799732 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001085036 100 $a20200229h20172017 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aScratches $eThe Rules of the Game, Volume 1 /$fMichel Leiris 210 1$aNew Haven, CT :$cYale University Press,$d[2017] 210 4$d©2017 215 $a1 online resource (273 pages) $cillustrations 225 0 $aThe Margellos World Republic of Letters 311 $a0-300-21237-2 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tTranslators Note --$t"... Reusement!" --$tSongs --$tIn Court Dress --$tAlphabet --$tPersephone --$t"Once Upon a Time . . . " --$tSunday --$tThe Trumpet-Drum 330 $aA dazzling translation by Lydia Davis of the first volume of Michel Leiris's masterwork, perhaps the most important French autobiographical enterprise of the twentieth century Michel Leiris, a French intellectual whose literary works inspired high praise from the likes of Simone de Beauvoir and Claude Lévi-Strauss, began the first volume of his autobiographical project at the age of 40. It was the beginning of an endeavor that ultimately required 35 years and three additional volumes. In Volume 1, Scratches, Leiris proposes to discover a savoir vivre, a mode of living that would have a place for both his poetics and his personal morality. "I can scarcely see the literary use of speech as anything but a means of sharpening one's consciousness in order to be more-and in a better way-alive,"; he declares. He begins the project of uncovering memories, returning to moments and images of childhood-his father's recording machine, the letters of the alphabet coming to life-and then of his later life-Paris under the Occupation, a journey to Africa, and a troubling fear of death. 410 0$aMargellos world republic of letters book. 606 $aPoets, French 615 0$aPoets, French. 676 $a848.91209 700 $aLeiris$b Michel$f1901-1990,$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0143722 701 $aDavis$b Lydia$0801181 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910826843303321 996 $aScratches$94021891 997 $aUNINA