ISBN:
9780857423771
,
0857423770
Language:
English
Pages:
711 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
,
23 cm
Series Statement:
The Africa list
Uniform Title:
L' Afrique fantôme
DDC:
916.704316092
Keywords:
Leiris, Michel 1901-1990 Diaries
;
Leiris, Michel Travel
;
Authors, French Biography 20th century
;
French History 20th century
;
Africa, Sub-Saharan Description and travel
;
Africa, Sub-Saharan Civilization
;
20th century
;
Africa, Central Description and travel
;
Quelle
;
Quelle
;
Leiris, Michel 1901-1990
;
Tagebuch
;
Afrika
Abstract:
One of the towering classics of twentieth century French literature, Phantom Africa is a singular and ultimately unclassifiable work: a book composed of one man’s compulsive and constantly mutating daily travel journal—by turns melodramatic, self-deprecating, ecstatic, and morose—as well as an exhaustively detailed account of the first French state-sponsored anthropological expedition to visit sub-Saharan Africa.
Note:
Translated from the French
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