PHANTOM AFRICA

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One of the towering classics of twentieth century French literature,Phantom Africais a singular and ultimately unclassifiable work a book composed of one mans compulsive and constantly mutating daily travel journalby turns melodramatic, self-deprecating, ecstatic, and moroseas well as an exhaustively detailed account of the first French state-sponsored anthropological expedition to visit sub-Saharan Africa. In 1930, Michel Leiris was an aspiring poet drifting away from the orbit of the Sur

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Michel Leiris

scriitor și etnograf surrealist francez (1901-1990)

Michel Leiris(n. 20 aprilie 1901, Paris, Seine, Franța – d. 30 septembrie 1990, Saint-Hilaire⁠ , Île-de-France, Franța) a fost un scriitor, poet, etnolog și critic de artă francez.