Mirror of Bullfighting

Mirror of Bullfighting Book Description When Michel Leiris passed away in 1990, French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss claimed in his farewell article in the Libération newspaper that Leiris was "unquestionably one of the greatest writers of the century." So what made it so great? Isn't it a powerful objection raised within literature against the narrow-minded objectivism of its age, hidden under the label of "realism", and the separation from itself that it constantly inculcates? Those who describe Leiris as "the Montaigne of his age" are not wrong, as he always searches for the truth within himself, not outside himself, in his autobiographical essays, in which he writes his memories, observations, fantasies and even confessions. In his famous foreword to the 1946 edition of his book LÂge dhomme (Age of Adulthood), Leiris, in order to justify this objection, describes bullfighting, the dangerous relationship between toro and torero, that is, bull and wrestler, and the erotic connotations it evokes, while asking for a questioning of authenticity that will make us reconsider the act of writing. attempts. If that preface is the beginning, the peak of the query is this total text. On this occasion, we respectfully commemorate Samih Rifat, who meticulously translated the article "Bullwrestling is More Than an Art" in the book for Gergedan magazine years ago... (From the Promotional Bulletin)