ENGLISH

Michel Leiris: Writing the Self

By Seán Hand

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2002
ISBN
0521495741, 9780521495745, 9780511039591
LCC
PQ2623.E424 Z654 2002
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3500060 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in French
Pages
274\272
Topic
Education
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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.

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