Fibrils The Rules of the Game, Volume 3
Synopsis
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.Book details
- Series:
- The Margellos World Republic of Letters (Book 3)
- Author:
- Michel Leiris
- ISBN:
- 9780300227857
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780300212396
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- Pages:
- N/A
- Reading age:
- Not specified
- Includes images:
- No
- Date of addition:
- 2019-04-14
- Usage restrictions:
- Copyright
- Copyright date:
- 2017
- Copyright by:
- Michel Leiris
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Categories:
- Biographies and Memoirs, History, Nonfiction