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Tag Archives: OULIPO
1997: Translation / Transformation
In a 1997 essay on translation, the writer Harry Mathews cites Marcel Benabou’s version of Keats’s “A thing of beauty is a joy forever”: Ah, singe débotté, / Hisse un jouet fort et vert! It’s not quite a translation: the … Continue reading
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Tagged 1990's, 20th Century, Animals, Art, Austria, France, Gabriel von Max, Harry Mathews, John Keats, Language, Mammals, Marcel Benabou, Monkeys, Opera, OULIPO, Painting, Poetry, Translation, USA
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1989: The Great Fire of London
In this dream I was coming up out of the London tube. I was in a rush, under a gray rain. I was preparing myself for a new life, for a joyful freedom. And I had to fathom the dream’s … Continue reading
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Tagged 17th Century, 1980's, 20th Century, Books, Fire, France, Great Britain, Jacques Roubaud, London, Natural Disasters, OULIPO, Samuel Rolle
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