Aurora and Cardinal Point

by Michel Leiris

This volume collects two classics of Surrealist fiction, both long out of print, by the writer and ethnographer Michel Leiris (1901-1990). Close to Georges Bataille, Picasso, Jean-Paul Sartre and Francis Bacon, and a director of the Mus?e de l'Homme in Paris, Leiris was a pivotal figure in postwar France. He wrote important works in the fields of ethnology and anthropology, as well as a sequence of autobiographical works regarded as classics of modern...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1900565463
• ISBN13: 9781900565462
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Atlas Press LLC
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.9" x 7.7"