Fibrils : The Rules of the Game, Volume 3 / / Michel Leiris

• Autore: Leiris Michel <1901-1990, >
• Pubblicazione: New Haven, CT : , : Yale University Press, , [2017]; ©2017
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (252 pages)
• Disciplina: 848/.91209
• Soggetto topico: Poets, French
• Altri autori: DavisLydia
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- TRANSLATOR'S NOTE -- La Fière, la fière . . . -- I -- II -- III -- IV
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Fibrils
• ISBN: 0-300-22785-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910810738003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Margellos world republic of letters book.