Three talks on literature and suicide by a. ALVAREZ
1: Dada: Suicide as an Art
Mr Alvarez discusses some of the key suicides in the Dada movement, in particular the deaths of Jacques Vache , Arthur Cravan , Jacques Rigaut and Rene Crevel. He argues that the Dadaists ' by treating suicide, madness and the psychopathology of everyday art as casual shock troops in their contemptuous assault on the public ... helped to a voice those for whom despair was not an amusing alternative but a fate.'
(Thursday. 9.10 pm: 2-Art. Suicide and Mourning)