Yale French Studies, Number 81

Michel Leiris (1901-1990), famed anthropologist, essayist, autobiographer, and art critic, has been regarded for the last fifty years as an authoritative reference for any investigation combining literature and the human sciences. Yet because of his aloof and reserved personality, he has remained on the sidelines of many modern movements and few books ahave been written about him. This issue of Yale French Studies pays tribute to Leiris as a great man of letters in twentieth-century European culture. Marc Blanchard: Editors Preface: Michel Leiris (1901-1990) in Perspective Lydia Davis: An Excerpt from Fourbis Edouard Glissant: The Repli and the Depli Francis Marmande: Michel Leiris: The Letter to Louise Jean-Christophe Bailly: A River with no Novel Jean-Luc Nancy: Les Iris [Irises] Denis Hollier: Poetry . . . up to Z Leah Hewitt: Between Movements: Leiris in Literary History Michele Richman: Leiriss LAge dhomme: Politics and the Sacred in Everyday Ethnography Marc Blanchard: "N stuff . . . ": Practices, Equipment, Protocols in Twentieth-Century Ethnography J.B. Pontalis: Michel Leiris, or Psychoanalysis without End Emmanuel Levinas: Transcending Words: Concerning Word-Erasing Maurice Blanchot: Glances from Beyond the Grave