Michel Leiris
Michel Leiris was born on April 20, 1901 into a cultured bourgeois family living at 41, rue d'Auteuil in the 16th arrondissement of Paris.
Resources
See The editorial staff of "Measures", Sylvia Beach, Barbara Church, Vladimir Nabokov, Adrienne Monnier, Germaine Paulhan, Henri Church, Henri Michaux, Jean Paulhan, Michel Leiris - photographed by Gisèle Freund in 1937, CGP.
Michel Leiris, between presence and absence - Presentation
Michel Leiris: autobiographical fragments
Michel Leiris: “By shaking up language, to a certain extent, we shake up the world”
Michel Leiris, at the origins of “L’Âge d’homme”
Michel Leiris and “The Rules of the Game” or how to say everything?
Michel Leiris “invigorated” by the Cuban revolution: reinvented writing
Leiris or the profession of living
Michel Leiris, confession maniac
Michel Leiris, a philosophy that moves!
Pages torn from the unpublished diary of Michel Leiris
Michel Leiris resources — Mélusine site
Correspondance : Michel Leiris & Jean Paulhan, 1926-1962
News :
- Leiris et Jouhandeau, nuits et châtiment – 2021-01-29
Bibliography of texts published in the NRF
The texts below, published in La Nouvelle Revue Française, are grouped into four main sets: texts by Michel Leiris, notes and columns by the author, texts about the author, and, when available, translations by the author.
Texts by Michel Leiris
- Le Chasseur de têtes, 1929-07-01
- Rêves, 1933-10-01
- L'Afrique fantôme (Fragments), 1933-12-01
- Documents sur Raymond Roussel, 1935-04-01
- Le sacré dans la vie quotidienne, 1938-07-01
- Miroir de la tauromachie, 1938-11-01
Notes by Michel Leiris
These texts by Michel Leiris may include reading notes, mood notes, performance reviews, miscellaneous pieces, or previously unpublished texts. They appeared in NRF sections such as Chronique des romans, L'air du mois, Le temps comme il passe, etc., or in tribute issues.
- L'Éthiopie et son destin, par Maurice Lachin et Dimitry Weliachew (Éditions de la N. R. F.), 1936-01-01, Notes : voyages
Chronological distribution of texts published in the NRF (1908-1968)
This chart shows the chronological distribution of texts across the four categories defined above: Texts, Notes, Translations, and Texts about the author.
Bibliography of texts published in the journal Mesures
The texts below, published in the journal Mesures, are grouped into two sets: texts by Michel Leiris and texts translated by the author.