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Overview
This is the first full-length study in English of the work of Michel Leiris, a central figure in contemporary French culture. It explores Leiris's participation in some of the most striking intellectual and artistic movements of the twentieth-century: surrealism, ethnography and existentialism. Comparing his writing to the major artistic, political and philosophical concepts of the period, Hand asserts that Leiris's multi-volume autobiography remains as the model form of twentieth century self-inquiry.
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- ISBN-13: 9780521026024
- ISBN-10: 0521026024
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Publish Date: April 2006
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.62 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.9 pounds
- Page Count: 276
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