Operratics

by Michel Leiris, Guy Bennett (Translator)

In Operratics Leiris turns his brilliant mind upon one of his major loves, opera. Approaching it as a lover of music without training, he discerns fascinating patterns of cultural movement in opera and reveals his personal tastes in this great genre. Michel Leiris began his writing career as a poet associated with the Surrealist group, but he later made major contributions as an art critic and anthropologist, and through his great autobiographical confession, L'Age d'Homme (Manhood).

Genres: France, Music

246 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1992

About the author

Born in Paris in 1901, Michel Leiris was a French surrealist writer and ethnographer. In the 1920s he became a member of the surrealist movement and contributed to La révolution surréaliste. In those years, he wrote a surrealist novel: Aurora.

After his exit from the surrealist group, he teamed up with Georges Bataille in the magazine Documents.