Michel Leiris: Writing the Self (repost)
Michel Leiris: Writing the Self (Cambridge Studies in French) by Seán Hand
English | September 2, 2002 | ISBN-10: 0521495741 | 274 pages | PDF | 3.3 Mb
English | September 2, 2002 | ISBN-10: 0521495741 | 274 pages | PDF | 3.3 Mb
This is the first full-length study in English of the work of Michel Leiris, a central figure in contemporary French culture. It explores Leiris's participation in some of the most striking intellectual and artistic movements of the twentieth-century: surrealism, ethnography and existentialism.
Comparing his writing to the major artistic, political and philosophical concepts of the period, Hand asserts that Leiris's multi-volume autobiography remains as the model form of twentieth century self-inquiry.