READING CLAUDE LEVI-STRAUSS

Claude Levi-Strauss, Tristes Tropiques, translated by John Weightman & Doreen Weightman, introduction and Notes by Patrick Wilcken (New York: Penguin Classics/Penguin Books, 2012) (From the "Introduction:"Tristes Tropiques has become a mid-twentieth-century classic. In the early 1960s, Susan Sontag called it 'one of the great books of our century', in the 1990s the Times Literary Supplement included Tristes Tropiques in its list of the hundred most influential books published since the Second World War." Id. at 3.).