Though virtually forgotten today, Joseph Bouchardy was a
co-founder of the Bouzingo group, the first self-declared “avant-garde”
collective, blending political radicalism, gothic-horror subculture,
experimental literature and art, and the transformation of everyday
life. Trained in England as an engraver, back in France he soon turned
to playwriting, and produced many blockbuster melodramas full of
deception, disguise, double-crossing,
violence, and convoluted, labyrinthine plots often taking place in
labyrinthine settings--delighted when he was able to construct plots so
complex that he even lost track of them himself. See "Translations" for his short story about the theatre, "The Garrick Remedy".
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