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David Coulter/E.F. Granell & Tom DeBeauchamp
January 19, 2019 @ 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
FreeDavid Coulter reads from his translation of The Novel of the Tupinamba Indian by Surrealist Spanish Civil War writer and painter Eugenio Granell, recently published by City Lights. An artist, educator, and translator (from Spanish and Portuguese), Coulter is currently at work on collections of stories by Granell and Miguel Carvalho; his visual work has been exhibited widely in the USA and Europe.
Coulter will be joined by Portland writer Tom DeBeauchamp, whose prose has appeared in Hobart, The Collagist, Ragazine, and elsewhere on the world wide web.
Written by Galician surrealist artist and revolutionary E.F. Granell, The Novel of the Tupinamba Indian is a picaresque, Cervantes-influenced allegory of the Spanish Civil War. Set against a cruel landscape peopled by generals, priests, conquistadors, poets, witches, and nuns, Tupinamba Indian embodies Granell’s wartime experiences while transforming them through his lush and incendiary surrealist imagination.With his capricious behavior and detachable head, the protagonist–a member of one of Brazil’s indigenous tribes–parodies the Enlightenment concept of the noble savage as he investigates a Spanish civilization upended by conflict. Like Robert Desnos’s Liberty or Love or Michel Leiris’s Aurora, Tupinamba Indian proceeds by the logic of dreams, resisting the brutal realities of Franco’s ascent to dictatorship through absurdist travesty and paying homage to the classless society that might have been.(City Lights)
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