Correspondence: Georges Bataille and Michel Leiris

by Georges Bataille and Michel Leiris

Book Overview

Including a number of short essays by Bataille and Leiris on aspects of the other's work as well as excerpts on Bataille from Leiris' diaries, this collection of correspondence throws new light on two of Surrealism's most radical dissidents.
In the autumn of 1924, just before Andr? Breton published the Manifeste du surr?alisme, two young men met in Paris for the first time. Georges Bataille, 27, starting work at the Biblioth?que...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1905422679
• ISBN13: 9781905422678
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: Seagull Books
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 7.6"