Author: Leiris, Michel [1901-1990]
Title: Brisées / Broken Branches
Description: San Franciscso, North Point Press, 1989. orig.cloth. 22x14cm, 266 pp. Translated by Lydia Davis. Originally published in French, 1966.. Minor rubbing. Some light top page-edge soil. VG. dustwrapper. ¶ Contents: Glossary: My Glosses' Ossuary (1925); Jean-Arthur Rimbaud's Adventurous Life; The Hieroglyphic Monad; The Case of Arnold Schoenberg; Metaphor; Civilization: Joan Miró; Talkie; Hans Arp; Mouth Water; Debace; The 1929 "Fox Movietone Follie"; Man & His Insides; Platform Africa; Fred Astaire; How I Wrote Certain of My Books; Spain, 1934-1936; Erik Satie's Humor; Rafaelillo at Nîmes on October 9; Glossary: My Glosses' Ossuary (1939); Epilepsy; Mallarmé, Teacher of Morality; Orestes & the City; Michel Fardoulis-Lagrange & the Petic Novel; The Martyr Saint Matorel; Elie Lascaux; Henri Laurens, or Sculpture in Good House; Introduction to "The Flight"; Bernarda's House; June Days; Divine Words; "Shoud Kafka Be Burned?": Response to an Inquiry; Tne Arts & Sciences of Marcel Duchamp; Sartre & Baudelaire; The Ethnographer Faced with Colonialism; Stones for a Possible Alberto Giacometti; Note on Use of Catholic Chromolithographs by Haitian Voodooists; Art & Poetry in the thought of Paul Eluard; A Marionette of Ubu; Picasso & the Human Comedy, or the Avatars of Big Foot; This Void: Jean Aubier; Through "Tristes Tropiques"; Their Morals & Ours; Michel Butor's Mythological Realism; Reverdy, Everyday Poet; On Raymond Queneau; Alberto Giacometti (on a Postage Stamp or Medallion); A Look at Alfred Mé traux; etc.

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