Fibrils: The Rules of the Game, Volume 3 Volume 3
Yale University Press, March 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good / Very Good. Item #385469
ISBN: 0300212399
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 (first published as Fibrilles in 1966), the third volume of Leiris's memoir The Rules of the Game, invites us to discover why Lévi-Strauss proclaimed Leiris "incontestably one of the greatest writers of the century."
Leiris's monumental autobiography, 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, along with the mundane: his walk to work, his visits to spas and galleries, his goals as a writer. He also details his suicidal "descent into Hell," when the guilt over an extramarital affair becomes unbearable and he overdoses on barbiturates. 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.
First printing; Sound binding; Clean, sturdy boards; Pages free of markings; Un-clipped jacket Very Good w/ no significant flaws to disclose; An excellent copy.
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