GLM (Acéphale, nouvelle série), 1938.
12mo of (1) bl.l., 57 pp., (2) ll., (1) bl.l.
Half mouse-grey calf, flat spine, covers adorned with a grey paper mosaic, untrimmed, top edge gilt, original wrappers and spine bound in, slipcase (Pierre-Lucien Martin, 1963).
166 x 123 mm.
Original edition.
This volume is the first and only title published in the new series of the review Acéphale.
The copy carries this autograph dedication signed on the half-title:
To Paul Eluard,
In sincere friendship
Michel Leiris
It is illustrated with three compositions by André Masson, one of which is double-page.
In the art of the torero, Leiris finds the dizzying illustration of a ceremony that strangely resembles both eroticism and the sacred, but above all, writing: death is brushed with the fingertips. For the torero, as for the poet and the lover, he writes, “all action is founded on the tiny but tragic flaw through which what is unfinished (literally: infinite) in our condition is betrayed”.
Published in 1938, this text, essential in Leiris’s work, has become the classic of bullfighting literature, indispensable for countering the detractors of the corrida.
Two corrections by the author in the text.
Superb binding by Pierre-Lucien Martin adorned, on the covers, with a mosaic of paper and mouse-grey calf.
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