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Fibrils - The Rules of the Game Volume 3 by Michel Leiris
Category: Culture
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, S ...Show more
Frail Riffs - The Rules of the Game, Volume 4 by Michel Leiris; Richard Sieburth (Translator)
Category: Culture | Series: The\Margellos World Republic of Letters Ser.
The fourth and final volume of Michel Leiris's renowned autobiography, now available in English for the first time, translated by Richard Sieburth Ex-surrealist and maverick anthropologist Michel Leiris (1901-1990) crafted his multivolume autobiography over the course of thirty-five years, profoundl ...Show more
Scraps: The Rules of the Game by Michel Leiris
Category: Culture | Series: The\Margellos World Republic of Letters Ser.
The second volume of Michel Leiris's hugely influential four-volume autobiographical essay, available to English-language readers in a brilliant and sensitive translation by Lydia Davis One of the most versatile and beloved French intellectuals of the twentieth century, Michel Leiris reconceives the au ...Show more
Scratches: The Rules of the Game: Volume 1 by Michel Leiris
Category: Biography | Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters
Michel Leiris, a French intellectual whose literary works inspired high praise from the likes of Simone de Beauvoir and Claude Levi-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 ...Show more
The Burial of the Count of Orgaz and Other Poems by Jerome Rothenberg (Editor); Pierre Joris (Editor); Pablo Picasso; Michel Leiris (Afterword by)
Category: Art and Design
Protean, erotic, scatological and experimental, Picasso's poetry is finally compiled in this essential anthologyPablo Picasso is arguably the most famous and influential artist of the 20th century. What few in the English-speaking world know is that in 1935, at age 54, an emotional crisis caused Picasso ...Show more
The Ribbon at Olympia`s Throat by Michel Leiris; Christine Pichini; Chris Kraus
Category: Politics
Short fragments and essays that explore how a seemingly irrelevant aesthetic detail may cause the eruption of sublimity within the mundane. That the nude painted by Manet (in a painting so conceptually new that it created a scandal in its day) achieves so much truth through such a minor detail, that ri ...Show more
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