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- ISBN 9780822330684
- Weight: 612g
- Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 08 Jul 2003
- Publisher: Duke University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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These thirty-two essays with commentaries strike a balance between Caillois’s political and theoretical writings and between his better known works, such as the popular essays on the praying mantis, myth, and mimicry, and his lesser-known pieces. Presenting several new pieces and drawing on interviews and unpublished correspondence, this book reveals Caillois’s consistent effort to reconcile intellectual rigor and imaginative adventure. Perhaps most importantly, The Edge of Surrealism provides an overdue look at how Caillois’s intellectual project intersected with the work of Georges Bataille and others including Breton, Bachelard, Benjamin, Lacan, and LÉvi-Strauss.
Roger Caillois (1913-1978) was a French social theorist and writer.
Claudine Frank is Assistant Professor of French at Barnard College.
