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Correspondence: Georges Bataille and Michel Leiris
Including a number of short essays by Bataille and Leiris on aspects of the other's work as well as excerpts on Bataille from Leiris' diaries, this collection of correspondence throws new light on two of Surrealism's most radical dissidents.
  In the autumn of 1924, just before André Breton published the Manifeste du surréalisme, two young men met in Paris for the first time.  Georges Bataille, 27, starting work at the Bibliothèque Nationale; Michel Leiris, 23, beginning his studies in ethnology.  Within a few months, they were both members of the Surrealist group, although their adherence to Surrealism (unlike their affinities with it) would not last long: in 1930 they were among the signatories of "Un cadavre," the famous tract against Breton, the "Machiavelli of Montmartre," as Leiris put it.  But their friendship would endure for more than 30 years, and their correspondence, assembled here for the first time in English, would continue until the death of Bataille in 1962.
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Correspondence: Georges Bataille and Michel Leiris
Including a number of short essays by Bataille and Leiris on aspects of the other's work as well as excerpts on Bataille from Leiris' diaries, this collection of correspondence throws new light on two of Surrealism's most radical dissidents.
  In the autumn of 1924, just before André Breton published the Manifeste du surréalisme, two young men met in Paris for the first time.  Georges Bataille, 27, starting work at the Bibliothèque Nationale; Michel Leiris, 23, beginning his studies in ethnology.  Within a few months, they were both members of the Surrealist group, although their adherence to Surrealism (unlike their affinities with it) would not last long: in 1930 they were among the signatories of "Un cadavre," the famous tract against Breton, the "Machiavelli of Montmartre," as Leiris put it.  But their friendship would endure for more than 30 years, and their correspondence, assembled here for the first time in English, would continue until the death of Bataille in 1962.
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Correspondence: Georges Bataille and Michel Leiris

Correspondence: Georges Bataille and Michel Leiris

Correspondence: Georges Bataille and Michel Leiris

Correspondence: Georges Bataille and Michel Leiris

Overview

Including a number of short essays by Bataille and Leiris on aspects of the other's work as well as excerpts on Bataille from Leiris' diaries, this collection of correspondence throws new light on two of Surrealism's most radical dissidents.
  In the autumn of 1924, just before André Breton published the Manifeste du surréalisme, two young men met in Paris for the first time.  Georges Bataille, 27, starting work at the Bibliothèque Nationale; Michel Leiris, 23, beginning his studies in ethnology.  Within a few months, they were both members of the Surrealist group, although their adherence to Surrealism (unlike their affinities with it) would not last long: in 1930 they were among the signatories of "Un cadavre," the famous tract against Breton, the "Machiavelli of Montmartre," as Leiris put it.  But their friendship would endure for more than 30 years, and their correspondence, assembled here for the first time in English, would continue until the death of Bataille in 1962.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781803091914
Publisher: Seagull Books
Publication date: 02/05/2023
Series: The Seagull Library of French Literature
Pages: 312
Product dimensions: 6.25(w) x 7.75(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Georges Bataille (1897-1962)was a French thinker, writer, and critic. Among his most celebrated works are Story of the Eye and Literature and Evil. 

Table of Contents

Editor's Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
 
Michel Leiris
On Georges Bataille
   Georges Bataille as Don Giovanni
   From Bataille the Impossible to the Impossible Documents
   From the Time of Lord Auch
 
Georges Bataille
On Michel Leiris
   Surrealism from Day to Day
   The Publication of 'A Corpse'
   Racism
 
Georges Bataille and Michel Leiris
Correspondence 1924-61
 
Michel Leiris
Georges Bataille, As Time Goes By
 
Robert Desnos, Georges Bataille and Marcel Griaule
Eye
 
Bernard Noël
Afterword: A Way of Looking that is Understood
 
Appendix: A Bio-Bibliographic Chronology
Periodicals to which Bataille and Leiris both contributed (1925-62)
Bibliography
Index
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