Oct 27th 2017

On Friday, October 27th at 7pm Alain Jugnon, Nathanaël, Patrick Durgin and Alison James will give a reading. Following the reading will be a discussion on and around Artaud’s essays Postscript from Van Gogh, the Man Suicided by Society and Conclusion from To Have Done with the Judgment of God. Please contact (Devin at Sector.2337) for copies of the text.Doors open at 6:30 pm. This event is free.

Alain Jugnon has written for the theatre and has published essays and articles on Nietzsche, Artaud, and Bataille. He is the editor of Cahiers Artaud and the political and poetic journal La contre-attaque.

Nathanaël is the author of more than a score of books written in English or in French. Her translations include works by Danielle Collobert, Édouard Glissant, Hervé Guibert, and Catherine Mavrikakis.

Patrick Durgin is a poet-critic and co-curator of the annual Festival of Poets Theater. His most recent book is PQRS: A Poets Theater Script.

Alison James is associate professor of French at the University of Chicago. She has published a book on Georges Perec and articles on the Oulipo, contemporary French fiction, documentary writing, and connections between literature and philosophy.

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