Seán Hand is Professor of French and Head of the School of Languages at Oxford Brookes University. He has published on Derrida, psychoanalysis, and contemporary French writing.
Acknowledgements
Introduction: the deaths of Michel Leiris
Part I. Texts and Contexts: 1. Unities and identities: Leiris and surrealism
2. Recasting the self: from surrealism to ethnography
3. Autobiographical frameworks: from ethnography to L'Age d'homme
4. Positional play: La Règle du jeu
5. Secreting the self: Journal 1922-1989
Part II. The Quest for Presence in La Règle du jeu: 6. Excess of joy: the beginnings of presence in '... Reusement!'
7. Organs of learning: sensing presence in Biffures
8. The act of union: being-in-the-world in La Règle du jeu
9. Thanatography: non-being as the limit of autobiography
Conclusion: locating Leiris
Notes
Bibliography
Index.
