Aurora
1946
First Published
3.69
Average Rating
196
Number of Pages
Leiris - associate of the Surrealists, then later, Bataille, Sartre, groundbreaking anthropologist - wrote this single novel which he published more than a decade after its composition, and his own description of it cannot be Despite the "black" or "frenetic" style of its blustering prose, what I like about this work is the appetite it expresses for an unattainable purity, the faith it places in the untamed imagination, the horror it manifests with regard to any kind of fixity - in fact, the way almost every page of it refuses to accept that human condition in the face of which there are some who will never cease resistance, however reasonably society might one day be ordered.
Avg Rating
3.69
Number of Ratings
65
5 STARS
29%
4 STARS
31%
3 STARS
25%
2 STARS
11%
1 STARS
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Author
Michel Leiris
Author · 10 books
Born in Paris in 1901, Michel Leiris was a french surrealist writer and ethnographer. In the decade of 1920s he became a member of the surrealist movement and contributed to La révolution surréaliste. In those years, he wrote a surrealist novel: Aurora. Afther his exit of the surrealist group, he teamed Georges Bataille in the magazine Documents.
