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Fibrils: The Rules of the Game, Volume 3 (The Margellos World Republic of Letters)
Fibrils The Rules of the Game Volume 3 - The Margellos World Republic of Letters Author:Michel Leiris 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, the third volume of his monumental autobiographical project The Rules of the Game, invite... more »s us to discover why Lévi-Strauss proclaimed him ?incontestably one of the greatest writers of the century.?
Leiris?s autobiographical essay, 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. He also details his suicidal ?descent into Hell,? when the guilt over an extramarital affair becomes unbearable. 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.« less