Michel Leiris : Writing the Self (Hardcover)

Acknowledgements; Introduction: the deaths of Michel Leiris; Part I. Texts and Contexts: 1. Unities and identities: Leiris and surrealism; 2. Recasting the self: from surrealism to ethnography; 3. Autobiographical frameworks: from ethnography to L'Age d'homme; 4. Positional play: La Regle du jeu; 5. Secreting the self: Journal 1922?1989; Part II. The Quest for Presence in La Regle du jeu: 6. Excess of joy: the beginnings of presence in '… Reusement!'; 7. Organs of learning: sensing presence in Biffures; 8. The act of union: being-in-the-world in La Regle du jeu; 9. Thanatography: non-being as the limit of autobiography; Conclusion: locating Leiris; Notes; Bibliography; Index.