Scratches - The Rules of the Game, Volume 1

A dazzling translation by Lydia Davis of the first volume of Michel Leiris's masterwork, perhaps the most important French autobiographical enterprise of the twentieth century

About the author

Michel Leiris (1901-1990) was a profoundly influential and versatile French intellectual. His four-volume autobiographical essay, The Rules of the Game, serves as a primary document of artistic life in the twentieth century. Lydia Davis has received numerous awards as a translator of works from the French and as an author. She lives in upstate NY.

Summary

A dazzling translation by Lydia Davis of the first volume of Michel Leiris's masterwork, perhaps the most important French autobiographical enterprise of the twentieth century

Product details

• Authors: Michel Leiris, Leiris Michel
• Assisted by: Lydia Davis (Translation)
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2017
• EAN: 9780300212372
• ISBN: 978-0-300-21237-2
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters; Margellos World Republic of Le; The Margellos World Republic of Letters; Margellos World Republic of Le; World Republic of Letters (Yale); World Republic of Letters
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, France, European History, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, Biography: historical, political & military, 20th Century, HISTORY / Europe / France, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Autobiography: literary, Autobiography: writers, Biography: historical, political and military