Duncan Fallowell

‘I’m a hypocrite and a total fraud’ – the confessions of a French Surrealist poet

My writing is mere bricolage … whatever I do, I only half do’, wails Michel Leiris in the final volume of his self-lacerating autobiography

The young Michel Leiris. [Getty Images]
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  • Frail Riffs: The Rules of the Game, Volume IV

    Michel Leiris, translated by Richard Sieburth

    Yale University Press, pp. 336, £27

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