Where: The Charnel House, 3421 W. Fullerton St., Chicago, IL<\/p>\n
French poet, novelist and playwright Raymond Roussel (1877-1933) faced Like much of Roussel\u2019s writing, The Dust of Suns<\/em> has a colonial This script-in-hand performance of Roussel\u2019s play, directed by John 773.871.9046<\/p>\n ALL<\/span> PERFORMANCES<\/span> ARE<\/span> FREE<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Where: The Charnel House, 3421 W. Fullerton St., Chicago, IL French poet, novelist and playwright Raymond Roussel (1877-1933) faced almost universal incomprehension and derision during his lifetime for works that neglected traditional character and plot development in favor of the construction of elaborate descriptions and anecdotes based on hidden wordplay. While the premieres of his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":345806,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282446\/revisions\/345806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nalmost universal incomprehension and derision during his lifetime for
\nworks that neglected traditional character and plot development in
\nfavor of the construction of elaborate descriptions and anecdotes
\nbased on hidden wordplay. While the premieres of his self-financed
\nplays caused near-riots, admirers included Surrealists Andre Breton
\nand Robert Desnos. who called The Dust of Suns<\/em> (1926) \u201canother
\nincursion into the unknown which you alone are exploring.\u201d Roussel
\nnever enjoyed the posthumous fame of his hero Jules Verne, but he has
\nexercised a powerful fascination upon later writers including the
\nFrench Oulipo group, John Ashbery, Michel Foucault and Michael Palmer.
\nNew editions of his novels and poetry are forthcoming this year from
\nPrinceton and Dalkey Archive.<\/p>\n
\nsetting. Against the backdrop of fin-de-siecle French Guiana, a
\nconvoluted treasure hunt unfolds. The Frenchman Blache seeks his
\nuncle\u2019s inheritance, a cache of gems whose location lies at the end of
\na chain of clues that includes a sonnet engraved on a skull and the
\nrecollections of an albino shepherdess. Meanwhile, his daughter
\nSolange is in love with Jacques\u2014but all Jacques knows of his parentage
\nis a mysterious tattoo on his shoulder\u2026<\/p>\n
\nBeer with design by Caroline Picard, features an array of Chicago
\nwriters and artists. Performers include: Larry Sawyer, Sara Gothard,
\nTravis Nichols, Monica Fambrough, Jamie Kazay, James Tadd Alcox,
\nSuzanne Scanlon, Joshua Corey, Jacob Knabb, Jennifer Karmin, Samantha
\nIrby, Lisa Janssen, Brian Nemtusak, John Keene, Judith Goldman,
\nJennifer Steele, Francesco Levato, Nicole Wilson, Jacob Saenz, and
\nJoel Craig.<\/p>\n