ScratchesA dazzling translation by Lydia Davis of the first volume of Michel Leiriss masterwork, perhaps the most important French autobiographical enterprise of the twentieth century. Michel Leiris, a French intellectual whose literary works inspired high praise from the likes of Simone de Beauvoir and Claude Lvi Strauss, began the first volume of his autobiographical project at the age of 40. It was the beginning of an endeavour that ultimately required 35