{"product_id":"scratches-the-rules-of-the-game-volume-1-volume-1-9780300212372","title":"Scratches: The Rules of the Game, Volume 1 Volume 1","description":"\u003cb\u003eA dazzling translation by Lydia Davis of the first volume of Michel Leiris's masterwork, perhaps the most important French autobiographical enterprise of the twentieth century\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Michel Leiris, a French intellectual whose literary works inspired high praise from the likes of Simone de Beauvoir and Claude L vi-Strauss, began the first volume of his autobiographical project at the age of 40. It was the beginning of an endeavor that ultimately required 35 years and three additional volumes. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In Volume 1, \u003ci\u003eScratches\u003c\/i\u003e, Leiris proposes to discover a \u003ci\u003esavoir vivre\u003c\/i\u003e, a mode of living that would have a place for both his poetics and his personal morality. \"I can scarcely see the literary use of speech as anything but a means of sharpening one's consciousness in order to be more--and in a better way--alive,\" he declares. He begins the project of uncovering memories, returning to moments and images of childhood--his father's recording machine, the letters of the alphabet coming to life--and then of his later life--Paris under the Occupation, a journey to Africa, and a troubling fear of death.\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 9780300212372\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.90d","brand":"Michel Leiris","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44337764991157,"sku":"9780300212372","price":15.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_803a22fa-13e2-4829-b187-e89b4cf094d1.jpg?v=1719329085","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/scratches-the-rules-of-the-game-volume-1-volume-1-9780300212372","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}