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The Autobiographer as Torero

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Also known as: “De la littérature considérée comme une tauromachie”

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In Michel Leiris
…considérée comme une tauromachie” (1946; The Autobiographer as Torero), comparing the courage required to write with that required of a matador. In 1948 he began another autobiography, La Règle du jeu (“The Rules of the Game”), which was published in four volumes as Biffures (1948; “Erasures”), Fourbis (1955; “Odds and…
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