Never would I have translated Jean Lorrain if I knew then what I know now. But that’s the beauty of reading a good book. The reader’s relationship is with the book and the story it tells, not with its author. There’s much I could write about Jean Lorrain that would turn you away from all…
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A few weeks ago I wrote about the French author, Eugène-Melchior de Vogüé, whose stories I’ve translated (at least, a few). Today I’ll give you some titbits on de Vogüé’s contemporary and fellow countryman, Catulle Mendès, a turn-of-the-century writer who believed in the wonder of imagination to help readers through the barren polluted landscapes of…
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My translation of Jean Lorrain’s little book, Stories to Read by Candlelight, will be published in the next few months by Odyssey Books, a small independent publisher run by an Australian in New Zealand! The stories will stay with you long after reading. I first read them in Lorrain’s 1897 collection, Contes pour lire à la…
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For the past eight years I’ve been translating the writings of a small handful of French authors, and I’ve come to know them quite well. On my ‘Translated Short Stories’ page (see above) there’s a list of titles mostly from 19th-century metropolitan France, with a few from 21st-century New Caledonia. I took a look at…
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