Michel Leiris, Author, Lydia Davis, Translator Paragon House Publishers $22.95 (1p) ISBN 978-1-55778-399-8
This confessional autobiography by Leiris, French anthropologist, surrealist poet and critic, often seems like one more exercise in French intellectual gamesmanship. Originally published in 1948, it's filled with baroque, convoluted sentences as...
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Michel Leiris, Author, Rizzoli, Author, John Weightman, Translator Rizzoli International Publications $24.95 (128p) ISBN 978-0-8478-0904-2
Bacon's menacing pictures of twisted human torsos, rabid dogs and dismembered men stranded amid carcasses made him a fashionable painter in the 1960s. But what has he been doing in the '80s? As this concise retrospective reveals, the British painter'
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Leiris, Author, Michel Leiris, Author North Point Press $21.95 (266p) ISBN 978-0-86547-375-1
These 51 essays and short pieces by French surrealist poet/art critic Leiris include incandescent tributes to such writers as Tristan Tzara, Max Jacob, Hans Arp, Paul Eluard, Pierre Reverdy, Andre Masson and Aime Cesaire. Leiris, who has a Gallic...
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Michael Leiris, Author, Michel Leiris, Author, Richard Sieburth, Translator Eridanos Press $22 (169p) ISBN 978-0-941419-06-2
This collection of dream entries, most no more than a paragraph or two, and reflections titled ""half-asleep'' and ``real-life'' span a period of 37 years. Referred to by the translator as ``prose poems,'' they loosely mirror Leiris's own eclectic...
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