{"product_id":"scraps-the-rules-of-the-game-volume-2-volume-2-9780300212389","title":"Scraps: The Rules of the Game, Volume 2 Volume 2","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe second volume of Michel Leiris's hugely influential four-volume autobiographical essay, available to English-language readers in a brilliant and sensitive translation by Lydia Davis\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e One of the most versatile and beloved French intellectuals of the twentieth century, Michel Leiris reconceives the autobiography as a literary experiment that sheds light on the mechanisms of memory and on the way the unconnected events of a life become connected through invented narrative. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In this volume, the second in his four-volume epic autobiographical enterprise, Leiris merges quotidian events with profound philosophical self-exploration. He also wrangles with the disillusionment that accompanies his own self-reflection. In the midst of struggling with his own motives for writing an autobiographical essay, he comes to the revelation that life, after all, has aspects worth remembering even if moments of beauty are bookended by misery. Yet what can be said of human life, of his own life, when his memory is unreliable, his eyesight is failing, and his mood is despairing?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Yale University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/28\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780300212389\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.80d","brand":"Michel Leiris","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44112750936245,"sku":"9780300212389","price":15.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_8f844c31-fe5c-4840-8c3b-8c4ebe8f0f1c.jpg?v=1715053404","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/scraps-the-rules-of-the-game-volume-2-volume-2-9780300212389","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}