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This is the first full-length study in English of Michel Leiris's work. Frequently cited as a central figure in contemporary French culture, Leiris was an outstanding writer whose double career as ethnographer and creative writer places him at important points of intersection within French cultural history. Seán Hand explores Leiris's active participation in some of the most striking intellectual and artistic movements of the twentieth century: surrealism in the twenties, ethnography in the thirties and existentialism in the forties. Hand locates his writing in these different contexts in relation to the major artistic, political and philosophical concepts of the period. He goes on to argue that Leiris's multi-volume autobiography La R

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Michel Leiris
• Subtitle: Writing the Self
• Author: Seán Hand
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 276
• EAN: 9780521026024
• ISBN: 0521026024
• ID: 02018609
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 408 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 151 × 15 mm
• Date of publishing: 20. April 2006

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