Michel Leiris's diary, variation around an autobiography
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Michel Leiris.
© Roger Parry- editions Gallimard
By: Pascal Paradou
30 mins
Michel Leiris, author and poet of the XXth century, turned ethnologist, kept a diary from 1922 to 1989, a work which according to his words
"would be neither diary, nor work in form, nor autobiographical story, nor work of imagination, neither prose nor poetry, but all at the same time ”.
Publicity
Thirty years after its first publication, this new edition, presented by ethnologist Jean Jamin and entirely revised in the light of recent studies and discoveries, now places the author at the forefront of the world of arts, letters and ideas.
Guest: Jean Jamin,
ethnologist and anthropologist,
director of studies at the
Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS)
.
Founder, with Michel Leiris, of the journal
Gradhiva
, a French biannual journal of anthropology and museology.
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