Reading Blanchard

I am reading Marc... or parts of his work... starting with two essays:

"On Still Life," Yale French Studies, No. 61, Towards a Theory of Description (1981), 276-298.

"From Cuba with Saints," Critical Inquiry 35 (Spring 2009), 383-416.

happy holiday season to all of you!
-Shannon

Eiffel Tower, near Caiberien Cuba

In the spring of 2008, Marc joined Pedro (Roxy Rojo) and I in Santa Clara Cuba for a couple of days of the national small format theatre festival at El Mejunje. That Saturday, Pedro, Marc, and I jumped into Arrocha's car (along with a lovely lady whose name I have forgotten) and drove toward Pedro's hometown of Caiberien. Along the way, we came upon a kind of miniature sculpture of, or monument to, the Eiffel Tower. Marc made us pull over immediately to take a picture of him in front of the Tower. Anyone who has traveled with Marc in Cuba knows he was not one for the tourist-posed photo opp -- so this was very unusual. He made me promise to send a copy to his daughter by email... once I had given my promise we were back on the road.