NIGHTS AS DAY, DAYS AS NIGHT, by Michel Leiris

Eridanos Press, 1988, First edition, 169 pp., 5 1/2" X 8 1/2", Hardcover

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The highly influential work, Nights as Day, Days as Night is a chronicle of Michel Leiris's dreams. But it is also an exceptional autobiography, a distorted vision of twentieth-century France, a surrealist collage, a collection of prose poems. Leiris, author of the seminal autobiography Manhood, here disrupts the line between being asleep and awake, between being and non-being. He captures the profound strangeness of the dreamer's identity: that anonymous creature who stirs awake at night to experience a warped version of waking life.

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