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Description of  Frail Riffs: The Rules of the Game, Volume 4 (Volume 4) (The Margellos World Republic of Letters)

0300264852 epub The fourth and final volume of Michel Leiriss renowned autobiography, now available in English for the first time, translated by Richard Sieburth Ex-surrealist and maverick anthropologist Michel Leiris (19011990) crafted his multivolume autobiography over the course of thirty-five years, profoundly influencing generations of French writers, from Sartre and Beauvoir to Modiano and Ernaux. In this fourth and final volume, Richard Sieburth completes the project of bringing Leiriss monumental experiment in self-portraiture into English. With wit and playfulness, Leiris assembled a scrapbook of fragmentsjournal extracts, travel notes, transcriptions of dreams, poemsto document the vagaries of a life committed to the difficult marriage of poetry and revolutionary politics, which he witnessed firsthand in Maos China, Castros Cuba, and on the Paris streets in May 68. Read more