Manhood

A Journey from Childhood Into the Fierce Order of Virility

• Author(s): Michel Leiris,
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Pages: 184
• ISBN_10: 0226471411
  ISBN_13: 9780226471419
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Biography & Autobiography / General , Biography & Autobiography / Literary Figures , Literary Criticism / General , Psychology / Developmental / Child , Social Science / General , Social Science / Anthropology / General , Social Science / Gender Studies ,

Description:... "Not only one of the frankest of autobiographies, but also a brilliantly written book, Leiris' Manhood mingles memories, philosophic reflections, sexual revelation, meditations on bullfighting, and the life-long progress of self-discovery."—Washington Post Book World

"Leiris writes to appall, and thereby to receive from his readers the gift of a strong emotion—the emotion needed to defend himself against the indignation and disgust he expects to arouse in his readers."—Susan Sontag, New York Review of Books