Manhood: A Journey from Childhood into the Fierce Order of Virility (1939) – Michel Leiris [Amazon.com] [FR] [DE] [UK]

Originally published in 1939 as L’Âge d’homme. This edition translated from the French by Richard Howard in 1992. Susan Sontag dedicated a chapter to it in Against Interpretation. The painting on the cover of this edition is by Northern Renaissance painter Lucas Cranach. [Sept 2006]

Via The Wire’s review of David Toop’s Ocean of Sound.