Phantom Africa

by Michel Leiris

Book Overview

One of the towering classics of twentieth century French literature, Phantom Africa is a singular and ultimately unclassifiable work: a book composed of one man's compulsive and constantly mutating daily travel journal--by turns melodramatic, self-deprecating, ecstatic, and morose--as well as an exhaustively detailed account of the first French state-sponsored anthropological expedition to visit sub-Saharan Africa.

In 1930, Michel Leiris...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0857427008
• ISBN13: 9780857427007
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Seagull Books
• Length: 720 Pages
• Weight: 2.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 7.4" x 8.9"