One of the towering classics of twentieth-century French literature, Phantom Africa is a singular and ultimately unclassifiable work: a book composed of one man's compulsive and constantly mutating daily travel journal--by turns melodramatic, self-deprecating, ecstatic and moros…
Politics, Writing, Mutilation was first published in 1985. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. Five twentieth-century French…
"Alter Ego is the first monograph in English on the critical writings of Michel Leiris (1901-90). A autobiographer and ethnographer, Leiris also produced criticism on art, opera, jazz and literature. His work offers commentary on twentieth-century intellectual movements and demo…