The Rules of the Game
Subtitle: Scraps (Leiris, Michel, Regle Du Jeu. 2.)
Contributors: Lydia Davis (Translator)
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: March 11, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9780801854897
Subjects: Biography: general; Essays, journals, letters & other prose works; Literary; Biography / Autobiography; Anthropologists; Scientists - General; Biography & Autobiography; French; Biography/Autobiography; France; European - General; Literary Criticism & Collections / European; Surrealism (Literature); 20th century; Poets, French; 1901-; Biography; Leiris, Michel,
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.