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DESCRIPTION:This event is part of the 2016 Dada World Fair, presented by City Lights 
 Booksellers & Publishers.\n\nFor more information on the Fair, go to 
 dadaworldfair.net.\n\nThe Mechanics' Institute Library is located at 57 
 Post St. in San Francisco.\n\nAbout Lost Profiles: Memoirs of Cubism, Dada, 
 and Surrealism:\n\nA French literary classic since its 1962 publication, 
 Lost Profiles is a retrospective of a crucial period in modernism, written 
 by co-founder of the surrealist movement, Philippe Soupault. Beginning with 
 a reminiscence of the Parisian branch of the international Dada movement in 
 the late 1910s, and its transformation into surrealism, Lost Profiles 
 ushers readers into encounters with a variety of literary lions. We meet an 
 elegant Marcel Proust, renting five adjoining rooms at an expensive hotel 
 to "contain" the silence needed to produce A Remembrance of Things Past; an 
 exhausted James Joyce putting himself through grueling translation sessions 
 for Ulysses; and an enigmatic Apollinaire in search of the ultimate objet 
 trouvé.  Soupault sketches lively portraits of surrealist precursors like 
 Pierre Reverdy and Blaise Cendrars, a moving account of his tragic fellow 
 surrealist René Crevel, and the story of his unlikely friendship with 
 right-wing anti-Vichy critic George Bernanos. The collection ends with 
 essays on two modernist forerunners, Charles Baudelaire and Henri Rousseau. 
 With an afterward by Ron Padgett recounting his meeting with Soupault in 
 the late '60s and an informative translator's preface, Lost Profiles 
 confirms Soupault's place in the vanguard of twentieth century 
 literature.\n\nPhilippe Soupault (1897-1990) served in the French army 
 during WWI and subsequently joined the Dada movement. In 1919, he 
 collaborated with André Breton on the automatic text Les Champs 
 magnétiques, the foundation of the surrealist movement. In the years that 
 followed, he wrote novels and journalism, directed Radio Tunis in Tunisia, 
 and worked for UNESCO.\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/09/06/18790926.php
SUMMARY:Lost Profiles: A Parisian Dada Salon
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\n261 Columbus Ave \nSan Francisco, CA
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/09/06/18790926.php
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