Fibrils: The Rules of the Game, Volume 3 (Volume 3) (The Margellos World Republic of Letters) (First Edition)

Leiris, Michel

ISBN 10: 0300212399 / ISBN 13: 9780300212396

Published by Yale University Press / Margellos, New Haven, 2017

About this Item

New Haven, YALE, 2017. First edition. First printing (with full number line including 1). Hardbound. Very Fine in a very fine jacket. A pristine unread copy. Comes with archival-quality mylar jacket protector. Smoke-free. First English Language edition translated from the French by Lydia Davis.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Fibrils: The Rules of the Game, Volume 3 (Volume 3) (The Margellos World Republic of Letters) (First Edition)
• Publisher: Yale University Press / Margellos, New Haven
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0300212399
• ISBN 13: 9780300212396
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New
• Seller catalogs:
  • French Literature

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Synopsis

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, Sartre, and Camus, yet his work remains largely unfamiliar to English-language readers. This brilliant translation of Fibrils (first published as Fibrilles in 1966), the third volume of Leiris’s memoir The Rules of the Game, invites us to discover why Lévi-Strauss proclaimed Leiris “incontestably one of the greatest writers of the century.”
 
Leiris’s monumental autobiography, a thirty-five-year project, is a primary document of the examined life in the twentieth century. In Fibrils, Leiris reconciles literary commitment with social/political engagement. He recounts extensive travel and anthropological work, including a 1955 visit to Mao’s China, along with the mundane: his walk to work, his visits to spas and galleries, his goals as a writer. He also details his suicidal “descent into Hell,” when the guilt over an extramarital affair becomes unbearable and he overdoses on barbiturates. A ruthless self-examiner, Leiris seeks to invent a new way of remembering, probe the mechanisms of memory, and explore the way a life can be told.

About the Author

Michel Leiris (1901–1990) was a profoundly influential and versatile French intellectual and the author of Manhood and Phantom Africa. His four-volume autobiographical essay The Rules of the Game serves as a primary document of artistic life in the twentieth century. Lydia Davis has received numerous awards as a translator of works from the French and as the author of the bestselling fiction collections Collected Stories and Can’t and Won’t.