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Michel Leiris: Writing the Self

Michael Sheringham

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This is the first full-length study in English of the work of Michel Leiris, a central figure in contemporary French culture. It explores Leiris's participation in some of the most striking intellectual and artistic movements of the twentieth-century: surrealism, ethnography and existentialism. Comparing his writing to the major artistic, political and philosophical concepts of the period, Hand asserts that Leiris's multi-volume autobiography remains as the model form of twentieth century self-inquiry.

Language: English

Pages: 276

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Release: April 20, 2006

ISBN: 0521026024

ISBN 13: 9780521026024

Michel Leiris: Writing the Self

Michael Sheringham

4/5 ( ratings)

This is the first full-length study in English of the work of Michel Leiris, a central figure in contemporary French culture. It explores Leiris's participation in some of the most striking intellectual and artistic movements of the twentieth-century: surrealism, ethnography and existentialism. Comparing his writing to the major artistic, political and philosophical concepts of the period, Hand asserts that Leiris's multi-volume autobiography remains as the model form of twentieth century self-inquiry.

Language: English

Pages: 276

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Release: April 20, 2006

ISBN: 0521026024

ISBN 13: 9780521026024

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