Scraps: The Rules of the Game, Volume 2 (The Margellos World Republic of Letters) - Tapa blanda

Leiris, Michel

 
9780300212389: Scraps: The Rules of the Game, Volume 2 (The Margellos World Republic of Letters)
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ISBN 10: 0300212380 ISBN 13: 9780300212389
Editorial: Yale University Press, 2017

Sinopsis

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 autobiography as a literary experiment that sheds light on the mechanisms of memory and on the way the unconnected events of a life become connected through invented narrative.
 
In this volume, the second in his four-volume epic autobiographical enterprise, Leiris merges quotidian events with profound philosophical self-exploration. He also wrangles with the disillusionment that accompanies his own self-reflection. In the midst of struggling with his own motives for writing an autobiographical essay, he comes to the revelation that life, after all, has aspects worth remembering even if moments of beauty are bookended by misery. Yet what can be said of human life, of his own life, when his memory is unreliable, his eyesight is failing, and his mood is despairing?

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Michel Leiris (1901–1990) was a profoundly influential and versatile French intellectual. His four-volume autobiographical essay, TheRules of the Game, serves as a primary document of artistic life in the twentieth century. Lydia Davis has received numerous awards as a translator of works from the French and as an author. She lives in upstate NY.

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Editorial
Yale University Press
Año de publicación
2017
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0300212380
ISBN 13 
9780300212389
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Número de páginas
248
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