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A Love Letters To A Famous Philosopher: Poetry Book Reading | SF

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Thursday, April 12, 2018 - 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm | Cost: FREE
The Green Arcade | 1680 Market Street, San Francisco CA

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“We are presented with an audacious epistolary: a young American poet, based in New York, writes in English to the eminent French theorist Alain Badiou (born in Rabat, Morocco, in 1937), and writes him love letters of astonishing honesty and passion. Echoes of Max Ophuls fill my mind as I read through the first fifty pages, letter after letter from Katy, no response from le philosophe–you’ve seen Joan Fontaine write pages and pages to Louis Jourdan, filling the screen with impassioned hand, in Letters from an Unknown Woman, right? It’s the saddest picture in movie history, so my first instinct is to say that young Bohinc has set her sights too high, and that he, “dear Alain,” won’t even remember her if shown a picture of her after her death. But then finally I get it, that what she is proposing is no ordinary love affair, but rather a test of love, a test to be played out according to her understanding of his writing, and the main action of the book turns into an interrogation, then a subversion, of his tenets, of the monstrances in which his words are displayed: his books and articles and public statements. As she writes, she changes his writing, at least its import, perhaps its meaning….”—Kevin Killian

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Cost: FREE
Categories: Literature
Address: 1680 Market Street, San Francisco CA