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11 produkter
The Sacred Conspiracy
The Internal Papers of the Secret Society of Acéphale and Lectures to the College of Sociology
Av Georges Bataille, Roger Caillois m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
389 kr
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Having spent the early thirties in far-left groups opposing Fascism, in 1937 Georges Bataille abandoned this approach so as to transfer the struggle onto the mythological plane, founding two groups with this aim in mind. The College of Sociology gave lectures attended by major figures from the …
Frail Riffs
The Rules of the Game, Volume 4
Inbunden, 2024
197 kr
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The fourth and final volume of Michel Leiris’s renowned autobiography, now available in English for the first time, translated by Richard Sieburth “Reading Frail Riffs, appearing in English nearly fifty years after its initial French publication, I realize how much our attraction to autobiography …
Manhood
A Journey from Childhood into the Fierce Order of Virility
Häftad, 1992
272 kr
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"Not only one of the frankest of autobiographies, but also a brilliantly written book, Leiris' Manhood mingles memories, philosophic reflections, sexual revelation, meditations on bullfighting, and the life-long progress of self-discovery."—Washington Post Book World "Leiris writes to appall, and …
Scratches
The Rules of the Game, Volume 1
Häftad, 2017
187 kr
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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 centuryMichel Leiris, a French intellectual whose literary works inspired high praise from the likes of Simone de Beauvoir and …
Scraps
The Rules of the Game, Volume 2
Häftad, 2017
159 kr
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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 DavisOne of the most versatile and beloved French intellectuals of the twentieth century, Michel Leiris reconceives the …
Phantom Africa
Häftad, 2019
391 kr
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One of the towering classics of twentieth century French literature, Phantom Africa is a singular and ultimately unclassifiable work: a book composed of one man's compulsive and constantly mutating daily travel journal--by turns melodramatic, self-deprecating, ecstatic, and morose--as well as an …
Correspondence – Georges Bataille and Michel Leiris
Av Georges Bataille, Michel Leiris m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
310 kr
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Including a number of short essays by Bataille and Leiris on aspects of the other's work as well as excerpts on Bataille from Leiris' diaries, this collection of correspondence throws new light on two of Surrealism's most radical dissidents.In the autumn of 1924, just before André Breton published …
Aurora and Cardinal Point
Surrealist Novels by Michel Leiris
Häftad, 2013
230 kr
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In this novel of extremes, whose author's distaste for 'things as they are' includes the whole idea of 'novels', Michel Leiris pursues his heroine, Aurora, through a visionary landscape shot through with catastrophe and disaster. His lucid and baroque language, with its incredible descriptions and …
