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Scratches - The Rules of the Game, Volume 1 (Paperback)
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Scratches - The Rules of the Game, Volume 1 (Paperback)
Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters, 1
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Loot Price R596
Discovery Miles 5 960
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A dazzling translation by Lydia Davis of the first volume of Michel
Leiris's masterwork, perhaps the most important French
autobiographical enterprise of the twentieth century Michel Leiris,
a French intellectual whose literary works inspired high praise
from the likes of Simone de Beauvoir and Claude Levi-Strauss, began
the first volume of his autobiographical project at the age of 40.
It was the beginning of an endeavor that ultimately required 35
years and three additional volumes. In Volume 1, Scratches, Leiris
proposes to discover a savoir vivre, a mode of living that would
have a place for both his poetics and his personal morality. "I can
scarcely see the literary use of speech as anything but a means of
sharpening one's consciousness in order to be more-and in a better
way-alive," he declares. He begins the project of uncovering
memories, returning to moments and images of childhood-his father's
recording machine, the letters of the alphabet coming to life-and
then of his later life-Paris under the Occupation, a journey to
Africa, and a troubling fear of death.
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