Brisées: Broken Branches

by Michel Leiris, Lydia Davis (Translator)

English translation of College of Sociology and Acephale member Michel Leiris' short essays on art, literature, film, poetry, anthropology, ethnography, alchemy, and opera. Includes writings on Joan Miro, Arnold Schonberg, Jean Arp, Fred Astaire, Erik Satie, Stephane Mallarme, Claude Levi-Strauss, Georges Bataille.

266 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1988

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.

Reviews

[Alice Rovani · Rating 3 out of 5]

L’imagination érudite fait lentement place à la (plateuse) critique. Rien ne dépassera les pages sur le crachat