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Roger Caillois ( – ) was a French writer whose idiosyncratic work brought together literary criticism, sociology, and philosophy by focusing on subjects as diverse as pictorial stones and the sacred.

He was also instrumental in introducing Latin American literature to the French public.

His definition of the fantastique in Au cœur du fantastique as "always a break in the acknowl­edged order, an irruption of the inadmissible within the changeless everyday legality" (tr. Richard Howard) is often-cited.

Biography

Caillois was born in Reims but moved to Paris as a child.

Roger caillois biografia: Huizinga had argued in Homo Ludens that the risk of death or of losing money corrupts the freedom of "pure play". ISBN It promotes the formation of social groupings which tend to surround themselves with secrecy and to stress their difference from the common world by disguise or other means. Thus Huizinga argued that gambling is a corruption of a more original form of play.

There he studied at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand, an elite school where students took courses after graduating from secondary school in order to prepare for entry examinations for France's most prestigious university, the École Normale Supérieure. Caillois's efforts paid off and he graduated as a normalien in After this he studied at the École Pratique des Hautes Études where he came into contact with thinkers such as Georges Dumézil, Alexandre Kojève, and Marcel Mauss.

The years before the war were marked by Caillois's increasingly leftist political commitment, particularly in his fight against fascism. He was also engaged in Paris's avant-garde intellectual life. With Georges Bataille he founded the College of Sociology, a group of intellectuals who lectured regularly to one another.

Prix roger caillois biography death Today Caillois is also remembered for founding in Diogenes , an interdisciplinary quarterly journal edited in French, Spanish and English with initial funding by UNESCO and still published to this day. Caillois' definition has itself been criticized by subsequent thinkers; [ 7 ] and ultimately, despite Caillois' attempt at a definitive treatment, definitions of play remain open to negotiation. Category : Canon. Formed partly as a reaction to the Surrealist movement that was dominant in the s, the College sought to move away from surrealism's focus on the fantasy life of an individual's unconscious and focus instead more on the power of ritual and other aspects of communal life.

Formed partly as a reaction to the Surrealist movement that was dominant in the s, the College sought to move away from surrealism's focus on the fantasy life of an individual's unconscious and focus instead more on the power of ritual and other aspects of communal life. Caillois's background in anthropology and sociology, and particularly his interest in the sacred, exemplified this approach.

He participated in Bataille's review, Acéphale ().

Caillois left France in for Argentina, where he stayed until the end of WWII. During the war he was active in fighting the spread of Nazism in Latin America as an editor and author of anti-Nazi periodicals. In , after the war, he worked with UNESCO and traveled widely.

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In he was elected to the Académie Française.

Today Caillois is remembered for founding and editing Diogenes, an interdisciplinary journal funded by UNESCO, and La Croix du Sud (Southern Cross), a collection of books translated from contemporary Latin American authors published by Gallimard that is responsible for introducing authors such as Jorge Luis Borges or Alejo Carpentier to the French-speaking public.

He is also considered to be a major contributor to the field of ludology, to which he devoted his book Les Jeux et les Hommes.

Bibliography

The Saragossa Manuscript by Jan Potocki. Edited and with preface by Roger Caillois. Translated from the French by Elisabeth Abbott. New York, Orion Press,

Man and the Sacred,trans.

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by Meyer York, Free Press of Glencoe,

Man,_Play_and_Games,trans. by Barash. New York, Free Press of Glencoe,

The Dream Adventure, edited by Caillois. New York, Orion Press,

The Mask of Medusa, , New York, C.N. Potter,

The Dream and Human Societies, edited by Caillois and G.

E. Von Grunebaum.

Prix roger caillois biography wikipedia Thus to Huizinga, card-games are not play but "deadly earnest business". Jump to: navigation , search. Richard Howard is often-cited. He also noted the considerable difficulty in arriving at a comprehensive definition of play, concluding that play is best described by six core characteristics:.

Berkeley, University of California Press,

The Mystery Novel. trans. by Roberto Yahni and A.W. Sadler. New York, Laughing Buddha Press,

The Edge of Surrealism: A Roger Caillois Reader.Edited and with an introduction by Claudine Frank ; trans. by Frank and Camille Naish. Durham, Duke University Press,

Œuvres

•  : Le Mythe et l'Homme
•  : L'Homme et le Sacré
•  : Puissances du roman
•  : La Communion des forts : études sociologiques
•  : Les Impostures de la poésie
•  :
  • Le Rocher de Sisyphe
  • Vocabulaire esthétique
•  : Babel, orgueil, confusion et ruine de la littérature
•  : Quatre Essais de sociologie contemporaine
•  : L'Incertitude qui vient des rêves
•  : Les Jeux et les Hommes
•  :
  • Art poétique.
    Roger caillois man play and games Huizinga had discussed the importance of play as an element of culture and society. It promotes the formation of social groupings which tend to surround themselves with secrecy and to stress their difference from the common world by disguise or other means. The Mystery Novel. Globalization and Community series.

    Commentaires. Préface aux poésies. L'Énigme et l'Image ; suivi de traductions de la Vajasameyi Samhita (XXIII, ) par Louis Renou, du Heidreksmal et de Sonatorrek, par Pierre Renauld

  • Les Jeux et les hommes : le masque et le vertige
•  : Méduse et Cie
•  : Ponce Pilate, récit
•  : Esthétique généralisée
•  :
  • Bellone ou la pente de la guerre
  • Le Mimétisme animal
•  : Instincts et société, essais de sociologie contemporaine
•  : Au cœur du fantastique
•  : Pierres
•  : L'Écriture des pierres
•  :
  • La Dissymétrie
  • La Pieuvre : essai sur la logique de l'imaginaire
•  : Mise au net, traduction de poèmes d'Octavio Paz (Pasado en claro, ) ; avec la collab.

  de l'auteur et d'Yvette Cottier

•  :
  • Babel
  • Approches de la poésie : les impostures de la poésie, aventure de la poésie moderne, art poétique, reconnaissance à Saint-John Perse, résumé sur la poésie, ouverture
  • Le Champ des signes : récurrences dérobées, aperçu sur l'unité et la continuité du monde physique, intellectuel et imaginaire, ou premiers éléments d'une poétique généralisée
  • Le Fleuve Alphée, prix Marcel-Proust, prix européen de l'essai Charles Veillon
•  : Approches de l'imaginaire
•  : Les Démons de midi (tiré d'un mémoire d'études de <ref>Ce texte, d'abord publié dans la Revue de l'histoire des religions (CXVI, , ), a paru pour la première fois en volume en dans sa version italienne à l'initiative de Carlo Ossola (I demoni meridiani, trad.

  it. d'Alberto Pellissero, Turin, Bollati Boringhieri , ), précédant de peu la publication française, par les éditions Fata Morgana, en </ref>)

•  : Correspondance Victoria Ocampo-Roger Caillois, lettres rassemblées et présentées par Odile Felgine, avec la collaboration de Laura Ayerza de Castilho, Stock, Paris
•  : Images du labyrinthe
•  : Jorge Luis Borges

Éditions illustrées

• Un Mannequin sur le trottoir, ill.

  par Pierre Alechinsky, Paris, Y. Rivière,

• Randonnées, ill.
  Prix roger caillois biography It promotes the formation of social groupings which tend to surround themselves with secrecy and to stress their difference from the common world by disguise or other means. Edited and with preface by Roger Caillois. Huizinga had discussed the importance of play as an element of culture and society. He is also widely cited in the nascent field of ludology, primarily from passages in his book Les Jeux et les Hommes

  par Zao Wou-ki, Paris, Y. Rivière,

• Trois Leçons des ténèbres, ill. par Pierre Albuisson, Fata Morgana,  ; rééd.
• La Lumière des songes, ill. en pleine page de Pierre Alechinsky, Fata Morgana,
• Pierres réfléchies :

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