Fibrils 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
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 L vi StA 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 L vi 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.
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Michel Leiris Lydia Davis
Born in Paris in 1901, Michel Leiris was a french surrealist writer and ethnographer In the decade of 1920s he became a member of the surrealist movement and contributed to La r volution surr aliste In those years, he wrote a surrealist novel Aurora Afther his exit of the surrealist group, he teamed Georges Bataille in the magazine Documents.