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Fibrils - The Rules of the Game Volume 3 by Michel Leiris
44.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Reading Level: very good
A major publishing event: 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, S ...Show more
Scraps: The Rules of the Game — Volume 2 by Michel Leiris
29.95 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: The\Margellos World Republic of Letters Ser.
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 auto ...Show more
Scratches: The Rules of the Game: Volume 1 by Michel Leiris
32.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters
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 ...Show more
The Ribbon at Olympia`s Throat by Michel Leiris; Christine Pichini; Chris Kraus
54.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Short fragments and essays that explore how a seemingly irrelevant aesthetic detail may cause the eruption of sublimity within the mundane. That the nude painted by Manet (in a painting so conceptually new that it created a scandal in its day) achieves so much truth through such a minor detail, that ri ...Show more
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