num_pages: 166
description: "Not only one of the frankest of autobiographies, but also a brilliantly written book, Leiris' Manhood mingles memories, philosophic reflections, sexual revelation, meditations on bullfighting, and the life-long progress of self-discovery."— Washington Post Book World"Leiris writes to appall, and thereby to receive from his readers the gift of a strong emotion—the emotion needed to defend himself against the indignation and disgust he expects to arouse in his readers."—Susan Sontag, New York Review of Books
language: English
title: Manhood: A Journey from Childhood into the Fierce Order of Virility
titlecomplete: Manhood: A Journey from Childhood into the Fierce Order of Virility
genres: 20th Century, Classics, Biography, Memoir, Autobiography, Philosophy, France, Biography Memoir, French Literature, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 483
publisher: University of Chicago Press