Yale French Studies, Number 81: On Leiris

by Marc Blanchard (Editor)

Michel Leiris (1901-1990), famed anthropologist, essayist, autobiographer, and art critic, has been regarded for the last fifty years as an authoritative reference for any investigation combining literature and the human sciences. Yet because of his aloof and reserved personality, he has remained on the sidelines of many modern movements and few books ahave been written about him. This issue of Yale French Studies pays tribute to Leiris as a great man of letters in twentieth-century European culture. Marc Editor’s Michel Leiris (1901-1990) in Perspective Lydia An Excerpt from Fourbis Edouard The Repli and the Depli Francis Michel The Letter to Louise Jean-Christophe A River with no Novel Jean-Luc Les Iris [Irises] Denis Poetry . . . up to Z Leah Between Leiris in Literary History Michele Leiris’s L’Age d’ Politics and the Sacred in Everyday Ethnography Marc "’N stuff . . . ": Practices, Equipment, Protocols in Twentieth-Century Ethnography J.B. Michel Leiris, or Psychoanalysis without End Emmanuel Transcending Concerning Word-Erasing Maurice Glances from Beyond the Grave

172 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1992