Claude Cahun's 'Cancelled Confessions' Publication Launch

Thin Man Press is delighted to celebrate the publication of Claude Cahun’s masterpiece, 'Aveux non Avenus' in translation (as 'Cancelled Confessions') and to present a rare opportunity to view large prints of all ten of the original photomontages from the book.

Best known for their photographic work, Cancelled Confessions reveals Claude Cahun to also be a major surrealist writer and pioneering queer activist. Cahun co-founded the first French gay magazine in 1924 – exactly one hundred years ago.

The event will feature readings from the text, followed by Harry Josephine Giles in conversation with Susan de Muth who translated the text. There will be an opportunity to ask questions.

The Clubroom will be open half an hour before the event begins to enable viewing of the prints which strongly relate to and reveal the text.

Harry Josephine Giles is a writer and performer from Orkney, living in Leith. Their verse novel Deep Wheel Orcadia was published by Picador in October 2021 and won the Arthur C. Clarke Award for science fiction book of the year.

www.harryjosephine.com

Thin Man Press is a small independent London-based ‘publisher of the unexpected’, founded in 2009.

www.thinmanpress.com

Susan de Muth is a writer, translator and editor based in London

www.susandemuth.com