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portada The Rules of the Game: Scratches (Regle du Jeu) (in English)
Type
Physical Book
Year
1997
Language
English
Pages
272
Format
Paperback
ISBN13
9780801854866

The Rules of the Game: Scratches (Regle du Jeu) (in English)

Professor Michel Leiris (Author) · The Johns Hopkins University Press · Paperback

The Rules of the Game: Scratches (Regle du Jeu) (in English) - Professor Michel Leiris

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Synopsis "The Rules of the Game: Scratches (Regle du Jeu) (in English)"

"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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