Frail Riffs by Michel Leiris
The fourth and final volume of Michel Leiriss renowned autobiography, now available in English for the first time, translated by Richard Sieburth-
The Dirty Dust
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Suspended Sentences
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The Orphanage
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Look at the Lights, My Love
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The Corpse Washer
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Graveyard Clay
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Love in the New Millennium
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Tales of Tangier
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Ballerina
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After the Circus
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Diary
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Sundays in August
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We Computers
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Sleep of Memory
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The Holy Innocents
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The Last Lover
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The Walnut Mansion
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Rosa Mistika
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The Body of the Soul
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Barefoot Doctor
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Here in Our Auschwitz and Other Stories
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Invisible Ink
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Such Fine Boys
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The Children of the Dead
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Dostoyevsky Reads Hegel in Siberia and Bursts into Tears
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Five Spice Street
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Please Talk to Me
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Mesopotamia
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Exemplary Novels
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The Dregs of the Day
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No One Will Know You Tomorrow
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How Fire Descends
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Late Fragments
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Anna Karenina
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Sky Above Kharkiv
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Walpurgis Night, or the Steps of the Commander
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I Live in the Slums
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Arabesques
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Masters and Servants
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Portraits of a Mother
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Paris Nocturne
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Scene of the Crime
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A Good and Dignified Life
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Family Record
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What We Live For, What We Die For
“This is a brilliant translation of the final chapter in Leiris’s astonishing autobiographyPage after page of this work of unique self-documentation contains observations and revelations, especially about Leiris’s reactions to the violence and chaos of World War II. I couldn’t put it down.”—Marjorie Perloff, author of Infrathin: An Experiment in Micropoetics
“‘Divination, alibi, purification rite’: In the fourth and final volume of his incantatory self-exploration, The Rules of the Game, Michel Leiris shuffles the tarot cards of his life in the light of his approaching death. Tracking the surges, feints, and elaborations of this Surrealist quest romance, Sieburth has created a monument of English prose.”—Rosanna Warren, author of Max Jacob: A Life in Art and Letters
“The indispensable legacy of a man who believed that a poet has to pay with his own unhappiness for the blessings of his gift.”—Alberto Manguel, director, Center for Research into the History of Reading
“Frail Riffs is a radical experiment in self-knowledge. Michel Leiris subverts virtually all the expectations built into the autobiographical genre in his performative making and unmaking of a self. The work’s lucid awareness of historical contingency, captured in Richard Sieburth’s nimble translation, speaks to our present uncertainty about where we are going, separately and together.”—James Clifford, author of The Predicament of Culture
“‘Divination, alibi, purification rite’: In the fourth and final volume of his incantatory self-exploration, The Rules of the Game, Michel Leiris shuffles the tarot cards of his life in the light of his approaching death. Tracking the surges, feints, and elaborations of this Surrealist quest romance, Sieburth has created a monument of English prose.”—Rosanna Warren, author of Max Jacob: A Life in Art and Letters
“The indispensable legacy of a man who believed that a poet has to pay with his own unhappiness for the blessings of his gift.”—Alberto Manguel, director, Center for Research into the History of Reading
“Frail Riffs is a radical experiment in self-knowledge. Michel Leiris subverts virtually all the expectations built into the autobiographical genre in his performative making and unmaking of a self. The work’s lucid awareness of historical contingency, captured in Richard Sieburth’s nimble translation, speaks to our present uncertainty about where we are going, separately and together.”—James Clifford, author of The Predicament of Culture
Michel Leiris (1901–1990) was a French writer, pioneer of modern confessional literature, noted anthropologist, poet, and art critic. Richard Sieburth is professor emeritus of French and comparative literature at New York University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780300264852 |
| ISBN 10 | 0300264852 |
| Title | Frail Riffs |
| Author | Michel Leiris |
| Series | The Margellos World Republic Of Letters |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Yale University Press |
| Year published | 2024-06-25 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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