{"product_id":"9780300227857","title":"Fibrils: The Rules of the Game, Volume 3","description":"\u003cb\u003eA major publishing event: the third volume of Michel Leiris’s renowned autobiography, now available in English for the first time in a brilliant translation by Lydia Davis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A beloved and versatile author and ethnographer, French intellectual Michel Leiris is often ranked in the company of Proust, Gide, Sartre, and Camus, yet his work remains largely unfamiliar to English-language readers. This brilliant translation of \u003ci\u003eFibrils\u003c\/i\u003e, the third volume of his monumental autobiographical project \u003ci\u003eThe \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eRules of the Game\u003c\/i\u003e, invites us to discover why Lévi-Strauss proclaimed him “incontestably one of the greatest writers of the century.”\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Leiris’s autobiographical essay, a thirty-five-year project, is a primary document of the examined life in the twentieth century. In \u003ci\u003eFibrils\u003c\/i\u003e, Leiris reconciles literary commitment with social\/political engagement. He recounts extensive travel and anthropological work, including a 1955 visit to Mao’s China. He also details his suicidal “descent into Hell,” when the guilt over an extramarital affair becomes unbearable. A ruthless self-examiner, Leiris seeks to invent a new way of remembering, probe the mechanisms of memory and explore the way a life can be told.","brand":"Yale University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47120495313136,"sku":"9780300227857","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780300227857_p0.jpg?v=1763670736","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780300227857","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}