The fourth and final volume of Michel Leiris’s renowned autobiography, now available in English for the first time...... more

"Not only one of the frankest of autobiographies, but also a brilliantly written book, Leiris’ Manhood mingles memories...... more

book is a guiding star for us all in troubled times. One night last winter, Antoine Leiris was at home looking after his...... more

Including a number of short essays by Bataille and Leiris on aspects of the other’s work as well as excerpts on...... more

appearance." But one of the few writers whose sensibility he trusted was the French author Michel Leiris. Leiris shared Bacon’s...... more

expedition to visit sub-Saharan Africa. In 1930, Michel Leiris was an aspiring poet drifting away from the orbit of the...... more

Ribbon at Olympia s Throat, Michel Leiris investigates what Lydia Davis has called the expressive power of fetishism how a...... more

mother of my son, but you will not have my hate." On November 13, 2015, Antoine Leiris’s wife, Hélène Muyal-Leiris, was...... more

expedition to visit sub-Saharan Africa. In 1930, Michel Leiris was an aspiring poet drifting away from the orbit of the...... more

A dazzling translation by Lydia Davis of the first volume of Michel Leiris s masterwork, perhaps the most important...... more

The second volume of Michel Leiris s hugely influential four-volume autobiographical essay, available to...... more

The third volume of Michel Leiris’s renowned autobiography, now available in English for the first time in a brilliant...... more

a chronicle of Michel Leiris s dreams. But it is also an exceptional autobiography, a distorted vision of...... more

Leiris (1901-1990). Close to Georges Bataille, Picasso, Jean-Paul Sartre and Francis Bacon, and a director of the Musée de l...... more

Including a number of short essays by Bataille and Leiris on aspects of the other’s work as well as excerpts on...... more

has never been kept before. Similarly struck by the poems originality, Michel Leiris wrote, If we must compare him...... more

In Operratics Leiris turns his brilliant mind upon one of his major loves, opera. Approaching it as a lover of music...... more