Jottings, Scraps and Doodles
Adam Shatz: Lévi-Strauss, 3 November 2011
Claude Levi-Strauss: The Poet in the Laboratory
by Patrick Wilcken.
Bloomsbury, 375 pp., £30, November 2011,978 0 7475 8362 2 Show More
by Patrick Wilcken.
Bloomsbury, 375 pp., £30, November 2011,
“... suggestion of his employers he eventually adopted the ‘mutilated’ name Claude L. Strauss.) But Patrick Wilcken has set himself an unenviable task, because Lévi-Strauss was the embodiment of pudeur, an exaggerated, almost prudish sense of discretion. He was good at keeping secrets, and at dodging interviewers’ questions. (The interview, he said, was ... ”
