Belcourt
84 E 4th St
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Illustrated Three-Line Novels
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Tuesday Sep 14, 2010 (6:30–8:30pm)
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“In 1906, French anarchist and art critic Félix Fénéon translated half a year's worth of news stories into condensed three-line "nouvelles" of murders, suicides, depression and strikes. While these were novel at the time, they are strikingly contemporary and find easy company with the short short fiction that has risen to prominence under the helm of such literary greats as Lydia Davis. Joanna Neborsky's odd and whimsical illustrations give these stories new life. Come celebrate with Vieux Carré Absinthe drink specials, passed hors-d'oeuvres and be the first to get your hands on a freshly unpacked first-edition.”
Rozalia Jovanovic, Flavorpill
In 1906, suspected terrorist, art-world tastemaker, and literary instigator Félix Fénéon wrote more than a thousand faits-divers for the Paris newspaper Le Matin. When New York Review Books Classics published Luc Sante’s English translation of Fénéon’s dispatches as Novels in Three Lines, illustrator Joanna Neborsky was inspired to bring twenty-eight of them to life using a mixture of collage and drawing. The resulting illustrations, combined with Fénéon’s economic and electric prose, comprise Illustrated Three-Line Novels: Félix Fénéon, and are sure to please everyone from Francophiles to fans of art and modernist literature.
- Mark Batty Publisher
