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The Tulse Luper Suitcases: Antwerp
UNITED KINGDOM · 2003

The Tulse Luper Suitcases: Antwerp

Peter Greenaway
biographical reconstruction 20th-century history fragmented narrative imprisonment and confinement material evidence and archives
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Synopsis

A comic study of 20th-century history, reconstructing the life of writer, creator and professional prisoner Tulse Luper. Born in 1911 Newport and last heard of in 1989, Luper’s life is pieced together from the evidence found in 92 suitcases scattered across the globe.An interstitial bridging the first and second parts, repeating the last hour of Part 1 and appending it with material covering Luper

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