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The Ribbon at Olympia's Throat by Michel Leiris (English) Hardcover Book
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- ISBN-13
- 9781635900842
- Type
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- ISBN
- 9781635900842
- Book Title
- Ribbon at Olympia's Throat
- Book Series
- Semiotext (E) / Native Agents Ser.
- Item Length
- 9.3 in
- Publisher
- Semiotexte The Limited
- Publication Year
- 2019
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.1 in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism
- Topic
- European / French, Literary
- Item Width
- 6.4 in
- Item Weight
- 21 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 288 Pages
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Short fragments and essays that explore how a seemingly irrelevant aesthetic detail may cause the eruption of sublimity within the mundane. That the nude painted by Manet (in a painting so conceptually new that it created a scandal in its day) achieves so much truth through such a minor detail, that ribbon that modernizes Olympia and, even more than a beauty mark or a patch of freckles would, renders her more precise and more immediately visible, making her a woman with ties to a particular milieu and era- that is what lends itself to reflection, if not divagation! -from The Ribbon at Olympia's Throat In The Ribbon at Olympia's Throat , Michel Leiris investigates what Lydia Davis has called the "expressive power of fetishism"- how a seemingly irrelevant aesthetic detail may cause the eruption of sublimity within the mundane. Written in 1981, toward the end of Leiris's life, The Ribbon at Olympia's Throat serves as a coda to his autobiographical masterwork, The Rules of the Game , taking the form of both shorter fragments (poems, memory scraps, notes) that are as formally disarming as the fetishistic experiences they describe, and longer essays, more exhaustive critical meditations on writing, apprehension, and the nature of the modern. Rooted in remembrance, devoted to the kaleidoscopic intricacies of wordplay, Leiris draws from his own aesthetic experiences as writer and spectator to explore the fetish that "exposes and disarms the sinister passage of time," conferring "an undeniable realness upon the whole by essentially causing it to crystallize in a reality it would never have possessed if that sturdy fragment hadn't acted as bait."
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Publisher
Semiotexte The Limited
ISBN-10
1635900840
ISBN-13
9781635900842
eBay Product ID (ePID)
9038395011
Product Key Features
Book Title
Ribbon at Olympia's Throat
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
European / French, Literary
Publication Year
2019
Book Series
Semiotext (E) / Native Agents Ser.
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Item Weight
21 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Lc Classification Number
Pq2623.E424r813 2019
Reviews
"Less a coda to his masterwork than its continuation, The Ribbon at Olympia's Throat is perhaps the best introduction to Leiris, his interests, and the curve of his rhythms." --Sasha Frere-Jacobs, The New Yorker
Copyright Date
2019
Lccn
2019-286221
Dewey Decimal
848.91209
Dewey Edition
23
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