The Rules of the Game
Subtitle: Scraps (Rules of the Game, 2)
Contributors: Lydia Davis (Translator)
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: March 11, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9780801854880
Subjects: Biography: general; Essays, journals, letters & other prose works; Poets, French; European - French; French Poetry; Literary Criticism; Biography / Autobiography; French; Biography/Autobiography; Literary; France; Leiris, Michel; Literary Criticism & Collections / European; Anthropologists; Surrealism (Literature); 20th century; Biography
First sentence: "Curtain of clouds." I always reacted strongly to these words-which evoked a theatrical space enlarged to the proportions of infinity-when I read them in a libretto, where they indicated the caesura between two scenes, of a work by Wagner or any other musician who chose, as did Nietzsche's illustrious friend, to put opera in the service of a mythology.