I’m a Cahunian
Adam Mars-Jones: Claude Cahun, 2 August 2018
Never Anyone But You
by Rupert Thomson.
Corsair, 340 pp., £18.99, June 2018,978 1 4721 5350 0 Show More
by Rupert Thomson.
Corsair, 340 pp., £18.99, June 2018,
“... Rupert Thomson’s new novel follows the contours of a remarkable life. Lucy Schwob, born in 1894 to a cultured and prosperous Nantes family, moved to Paris in 1920, where she developed strong links with the Surrealist movement and adopted the name Claude Cahun. Though she produced work in a number of media, and in her lifetime was known as a writer, she is now remembered for her photographic self-portraits, mainly taken in the 1920s, which stage her in various personae (aviator, buddha, doll, angel ... ”