[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"$flkgD0OLQRbCNvkXQaF2-SBRCzPgGSyfv3BGyinhF4S8":3,"$fV69sCbjiW8e0nhkEs36hVIfj4X-5jBrbc9cdqDgp8KY":14},{"author":4,"tags":13},{"author_id":5,"author_name":6,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"bio":9,"short_bio":10,"slug":11,"image_url":12},81181,"Michel Leiris","M",9,"Michel Leiris was born on 20 April 1901 in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, growing up in the French capital at a time when he would eventually become associated with the surrealism movement. A citizen of France throughout his life, he was educated at the Lycée Janson-de-Sailly in Paris, laying the groundwork for a career that would span several disciplines simultaneously.\n\nLeiris worked in French as a writer, poet, prose writer, and diarist, while at the same time pursuing a separate career as an ethnographer, ethnologist, and anthropologist. His association with surrealism placed him within one of the more distinctive artistic currents of the twentieth century, and his parallel commitments to literary and ethnographic work gave his output an unusually wide range. He moved between the study of the self, as a diarist and prose writer, and the study of other cultures, as an ethnographer and anthropologist, without abandoning either pursuit for the other.\n\nBeyond his writing and fieldwork, Leiris was also a collector and art collector, and this engagement with visual art formed a further strand of his life's work. For his contributions to French letters, he received the Grand prix national des Lettres, an award that recognised his writing during his lifetime.\n\nMichel Leiris died on 30 September 1990 in Saint-Hilaire, at the age of eighty-nine. The Grand prix national des Lettres, received in the course of his long career, remains a concrete marker of the place his work in the French language held among his contemporaries.","Michel Leiris was born on 20 April 1901 in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, growing up in the French capital at a time when he would eventually become associated with the surrealism movement. 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Dream-a scintillating mirage surrounded by shadows-is essentially poetry.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":11,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":12},{},[],{"id":31,"quote_text":32,"author_id":5,"source_id":19,"has_image":20,"author":33,"source":34,"quote_tag":35,"commentary":12},3287887,"Nothing seems more like a whorehouse to me than a museum. In it you find the same equivocal aspect, the same frozen quality.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":11,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":12},{},[],{"id":37,"quote_text":38,"author_id":5,"source_id":39,"has_image":20,"author":40,"source":41,"quote_tag":42,"commentary":12},867273,"poetry’s favourite moment is when one loses one’s footing because of a landslide or seismic shaking of thought",2,{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":11,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":12},{},[43,48,53],{"id":44,"tag":45},3856198,{"id":46,"tag_name":47},51,"poetry",{"id":49,"tag":50},3856199,{"id":51,"tag_name":52},60,"writing",{"id":54,"tag":55},3856196,{"id":56,"tag_name":57},76,"creativity",{"id":59,"quote_text":60,"author_id":5,"source_id":39,"has_image":20,"author":61,"source":62,"quote_tag":63,"commentary":12},867272,"When the human voice is reduced to being no longer a song, a word, or a cry, but the articulation of the unnamable itself, it is natural that there should be no other sound than the grinding of ice in the polar regions, the light, intermittent crackling of silk in the highest zones of the atmosphere, at the moment when the aurora borealis unfurls its strange, cold spangles. Majesty does not tolerate other eyes than these hard crystals",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":11,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":12},{},[],{"id":65,"quote_text":66,"author_id":5,"source_id":39,"has_image":20,"author":67,"source":68,"quote_tag":69,"commentary":78},745811,"at man’s height the mouth utters its cries, tosses forth its oracles, gives vent to its puns. To allow words to come to life, bare themselves, and show us by chance, for the space of a lightning bolt bony with dice, a few of our reasons for living and dying",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":11,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":12},{},[70,73],{"id":71,"tag":72},3578138,{"id":46,"tag_name":47},{"id":74,"tag":75},3578137,{"id":76,"tag_name":77},23389,"poetics","**The Backstory**\nThis enigmatic passage is excerpted from Michel Leiris's book, \"Manhood: A Novel of Partial Confessions\" (French title: \"La Règle du Jeu\"), first published in 1932 as part of the collection \"L'Âge d'Homme.\" During this period, Leiris was grappling with his own identity and sense of self through a blend of personal journaling, anthropological studies, and introspective writing. The tumultuous backdrop of early 20th-century Europe's cultural and social upheavals likely influenced Leiris's philosophical musings.\n\n**The Hidden Insight**\nAt first glance, the passage appears to be an ode to the expressive power of language. However, upon closer examination, it reveals a profound paradox: that our most meaningful statements, the ones that truly reveal our reasons for living and dying, are often those that arise from the momentary, almost accidental juxtaposition of words and thoughts. This fleeting union between the mind's utterances and the raw emotional currents beneath them is what gives life to language.\n\n**How to Use This**\nIn today's fast-paced professional landscape, where clarity and precision are highly valued, we can learn from Leiris's emphasis on embracing the unexpected and allowing our words to capture the essence of our inner lives. By surrendering some control over our verbal expressions and tapping into our spontaneous thoughts and emotions, we may stumble upon more authentic and impactful communication – one that not only conveys our reasons for living but also illuminates our deeper human experiences.",{"id":80,"quote_text":81,"author_id":5,"source_id":39,"has_image":20,"author":82,"source":83,"quote_tag":84,"commentary":12},745809,"And the beautiful lady, still with her beautiful wasp’s waist, the very beautiful lady whose charms buzz around our childish dreams, will not turn to cigar smoke when the North Star appears.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":11,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":12},{},[85],{"id":86,"tag":87},3578131,{"id":76,"tag_name":77},{"id":89,"quote_text":90,"author_id":5,"source_id":39,"has_image":20,"author":91,"source":92,"quote_tag":93,"commentary":12},745806,"Midway between the too soiled ground and the too-sublime vaults, at the level of the air, entering the skin of the role, poetry plays its game.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":11,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":12},{},[94,97],{"id":95,"tag":96},3578123,{"id":46,"tag_name":47},{"id":98,"tag":99},3578122,{"id":76,"tag_name":77},{"id":101,"quote_text":102,"author_id":5,"source_id":39,"has_image":20,"author":103,"source":104,"quote_tag":105,"commentary":12},585104,"Eroticism releases, ever so slightly, great lightning flashes that, on occasion, reveal to us the true nature of a given organ, suddenly restoring both its whole reality and its hallucinatory force, while simultaneously installing as sovereign goddess the abolition of hierarchies- those hierarchies within which we habitually grade, for better or for worse, the different parts of the body.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":11,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":12},{},[106,111,116],{"id":107,"tag":108},3108062,{"id":109,"tag_name":110},3665,"eroticism",{"id":112,"tag":113},3108060,{"id":114,"tag_name":115},14579,"anarchism",{"id":117,"tag":118},3108061,{"id":119,"tag_name":120},23696,"continuity",{"currentPage":122,"totalPages":122,"totalItems":8,"itemsPerPage":123},1,10]