Roger Caillois

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Roger Caillois was a French intellectual, writer, and sociologist known for his influential work on games, the sacred, and the fantastical, as well as his involvement in mid-20th-century literary and philosophical circles.

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instanceOf essayist
human
intellectual
literary critic
sociologist
countryOfBirth France
countryOfCitizenship France
countryOfDeath France
dateOfBirth 1913-03-03
dateOfDeath 1978-12-21
educatedAt University of Paris NERFINISHED
École Normale Supérieure NERFINISHED
employer UNESCO NERFINISHED
fieldOfWork anthropology of the sacred
fantastical literature
game studies
literary criticism
sociology
genre essay
fantastic literature studies
literary criticism
non-fiction
hasAcademicDiscipline comparative literature
sociology of culture
influenced anthropology of play
cultural studies
game studies
literary theory
influencedBy Georges Bataille NERFINISHED
Marcel Mauss NERFINISHED
surrealist movement NERFINISHED
Émile Durkheim NERFINISHED
languagesSpokenWrittenOrSigned French
memberOf Académie française NERFINISHED
Collège de sociologie NERFINISHED
movement surrealism NERFINISHED
nativeLanguage French
notableWork Au cœur du fantastique NERFINISHED
Bellone ou la pente de la guerre NERFINISHED
Le Fleuve Alphée NERFINISHED
Le Mythe et le sacré NERFINISHED
Le Mythe et l’homme NERFINISHED
L’Homme et le sacré NERFINISHED
L’Écriture des pierres NERFINISHED
Man, Play and Games NERFINISHED
Pierres réfléchies NERFINISHED
originalTitleOfWork Les Jeux et les hommes NERFINISHED
placeOfBirth Reims NERFINISHED
placeOfDeath Kremlin-Bicêtre NERFINISHED
positionHeld UNESCO official
editor
publisher
sexOrGender male
workFocus myth
stone imagery
the fantastical
the sacred NERFINISHED
theory of games
workLocation Paris

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Surrealist Group in Paris hasMember Roger Caillois