Scraps: The Rules of the Game, Volume 2

The second volume of Michel Leiris’s hugely influential four—volume autobiographical essay, available to English—language readers in a brilliant and sensitive translation by Lydia Davis

One of the most versatile and beloved French intellectuals of the twentieth century, Michel Leiris reconceives the autobiography as a literary experiment that sheds light on the mechanisms of memory and on the way the unconnected events of a life become connected through invented narrative.

In this volume, ...