num_pages: 276
description: 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 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
title: Michel Leiris: Writing the Self
titlecomplete: Michel Leiris: Writing the Self (Cambridge Studies in French, Series Number 70)
ratings_count: 7
series: Cambridge Studies in French
publisher: Cambridge University Press