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In the autumn of 1924, two men met in Paris for the first time. Georges Bataille was 27 and had started working at the Bibliotheque nationale. Michel Leiris, 23, was...Read More

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  • Book Description

    The friendship between Georges Bataille and Michel Leiris would endure for more than thirty years and their correspondence, assembled here for the first time, would continue until the death of Bataille in 1962. As these letters show, their intellectual affinities were extensive and although they followed different trajectories--Leiris spending more and more time in Africa as an ethnologist, while Bataille remained in Paris developing the ideas on the sacred, sacrifice and eroticism for which he is best known--they continued to have a profound influence on each other. Including a number of short essays by each of them on aspects of the otherâ??s work, and excerpts on Bataille from Leirisâ??s diaries, this collection of their correspondence throws new light on two of surrealismâ??s most radical dissidents.

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    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.
     
    Including a number of short essays by each of them on aspects of the other's work, and excerpts on Bataille from Leiris' diaries, this collection of their correspondence throws new light on two of Surrealism's most radical dissidents.

  • 1905422679
  • 9781905422678
  • G Bataille
  • 1 June 2008
  • Chicago University Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 312
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