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Michel Leiris was a poet, novelist and ethnographer. After leaving the Surrealist group, he was associated with Jean-Paul Sartre and Georges Bataille. Leiris acquired his enthusiasm for bullfighting (a life-long passion) with Bataille, Andre Masson and Pablo Picasso. Here, he describes the geometry of the bullfight, its choreography, art and structure, the notions of beauty and magic that underpin its ritual, and the idea that this can be a real mortal confrontation. The illustrations by Andre Masson were drawn especially for this book.… (altro)
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So, the matador stands upright, feet impeccably together, riveted by his fear of going down in the public's estimation, and at the same time by the narrow bands that encircle his ankle, masked by the puke-pink stockings and the flashiness of his pumps. Stiffness of man alone, stiffness of sword. The slowly deployed muleta covers the all too obvious stalk with its eyelid, a jet shot chimerically from a pupil of steel.
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They have a chance of arriving there only by mixing into the alloy with which they compose the silvering of their mirror (a spectacle, an erotic mise en scène, a poem, a work of art) an element capable of rendering visible, through the most rigid or most tender beauty, something desperate, irretrievably miserable and irreducibly vitiated. A spot of venom, without which no alcohol would be conceivable, since drunkenness — however euphoric it may be — can never be anything but an image more or less akin to our future communion with the world of death.
Michel Leiris was a poet, novelist and ethnographer. After leaving the Surrealist group, he was associated with Jean-Paul Sartre and Georges Bataille. Leiris acquired his enthusiasm for bullfighting (a life-long passion) with Bataille, Andre Masson and Pablo Picasso. Here, he describes the geometry of the bullfight, its choreography, art and structure, the notions of beauty and magic that underpin its ritual, and the idea that this can be a real mortal confrontation. The illustrations by Andre Masson were drawn especially for this book.