if you are curious about the autobiographical writings of leiris, i recommend starting here and not with "manhood"; although "manhood" is an interesting work, i think it is a bit spoiled by too much of leiris' pessimistic self-scrutiny, a dark energy that is present in "scratches" but that is here put to use in new ways-- in dismantling the ludic trumpet-drum of speech and in glimpsing scraps of the tacit rules that govern language and memory, under which free association is never exactly free--french-literature4 s Joseph Schreiber498 143

Made my way through this more than once over the year, will now move on to second and third parts of this erratic and convoluted autobiographical exercise. Leiris' exploration of the connections between language and memory in his idiosyncratic way offers much food for thought about the enterprise of writing one's own life. Impossible to capture in simple terms, I will attempt to write something more soon.4 s Melissa11 3

Through his writing, Leiris explores how he came to be who he was, stitching together memories, the scraps, the scratches intersecting and connecting his life, the knots, the meanderings and digressions. He calls this attempt an "abridged encyclopedia" of himself and its beautiful. It was addictive to read (despite his occasional long-winded leanings). His self-deprecating nature, his uncertainty as to what it is he was actually trying to achieve, his constant questioning of his intention in writing and the productivity of his life, is a pleasure to read.1 Justin Evans1,572 898

I wanted to enjoy this much more than I did. It has its moments, but I suspect I don't care about language in quite the same way that Leiris did, and that makes large stretches of this book entirely, entirely dull. But the good bits make me hope the next three volumes will be great.essays fiction1 BrianAuthor 1 book4

Beautifully written memoir about not very much. I am tempted to call it Proustian, but I don’t really know what that means.2018 Rob Arnott11 1 follower

Essentially reading an instruction manual.biography french Brenna45

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