Fantomas Absinthe Tasting & Odd Performances | City Lights

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Celebrate 100 years of the great literary character of Fantomas (a French anti-hero from 1911 who executed appalling crimes with ruthlessness and precision) at City Lights.

Reception and Absinthe tasting followed by an evening of readings, diatribes, and manifestos – accompanied by a display of Fantomas book covers & artwork. Opening Statements by Peter Maravelis & Robin Walz. Readings and performances by Jonathan P. Eburne, Marc Ellis, Andrew Joron, Daniel Handler in a musical duet with chantuese Jill Tracy, Dominique Kalifa, Brian Lucas, Joseph Noble, Howard Rodman, and Robin Walz, and more tba. Libations provided by St. George Spirits.

About Fantomas: In 1911 the pulp fiction writers Pierre Souvestre and Marcel Allain introduced a fictional character to the French reading public that was to capture their imagination and keep them yearning for more. The ultimate anti-hero, as enigmatic as he was treacherous, Fantomas executed the most appalling crimes with ruthlessness and precision. He spread terror and chaos amidst the lives of a bourgeois society that he took pleasure in ridiculing. Souvestre and Allain were in tune with the pulse of the public’s fascination with shadow-side of modernity.

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