The Rules of the Game: Scratches (Regle Du Jeu) - Softcover

Leiris, Professor Michel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0801854865 ISBN 13: 9780801854866

Verlag: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997

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Book by Leiris Professor Michel

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"Michel Leiris is the author of the most significant and arresting work of autobiography to have been written in the twentieth century." -- John Sturrock

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"For me his work is not only a document that enriches our knowledge of man, but also a personal testament that touches me deeply."--Francis BaconScratches is the first volume in Michel Leiris's monumental four-volume autobiography, Rules of the Game. In this volume, the celebrated French writer examines his inventory of memories, explores the language of his childhood, weaves anecdotes from his private life with his old and recent ideas. In the end, he so mercilessly scrutinizes what was familiar that its familiarity drops away and it blossoms into something exotic.

As Leiris recollects his childhood, his father's recording machine becomes a miraculous object and the letters of the alphabet--from A (or the double ladder of a house painter) to I (a soldier standing at attention) to X (the cross one makes on something whose secret one will never penetrate)--come magically to life. Also here are evocations of Paris under the occupation, his journey to Africa, and meditations on his fear of death, which he tried to exorcise through his autobiographical writings.

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• Verlag: The Johns Hopkins University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0801854865
• ISBN 13: 9780801854866
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 272