{"id":439,"date":"2019-04-23T14:06:45","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T04:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/patriciaworthtranslator.com\/?p=439"},"modified":"2024-06-16T09:04:35","modified_gmt":"2024-06-15T23:04:35","slug":"the-mandrake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patriciaworthtranslator.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/23\/the-mandrake\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mandrake"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the stories by Jean Lorrain that I’ve translated over the years is La Mandragore (<\/em>The Mandrake). <\/em><\/p>\n

Recently I put a couple of images on a unique Facebook page, The Golden Age of Illustration. My contribution was from the original illustrated version of 1899 of La Mandragore<\/em>, and got hundreds of ‘reactions’, as they’re called on that site. And my reaction to these reactions was total surprise, for over the years I’ve put a number of posts on Facebook without much response. But for this post, once I’d noticed the rising count of ‘likes’ and comments, I provided a link to my translation, which was daring since it’s a web page only about images. A couple of people actually clicked on the link to The Mandrake<\/em> which is freely available in The Belmont Story Review<\/em><\/a>. And they read it. And liked it.<\/p>\n

One reader said: A powerful tale! I was so taken with your translation of the story that I screen shot the pages with my phone so I could read it over and over.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Another said: Thanks so much for sharing this. I loved it! Merci beaucoup.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Back in 2016 when I sent the story to a couple of journals, the response was equally positive. One editor loved it so much that he fiddled with it for a whole weekend, believing he could make it even better, to my dismay. A second publisher said that after reading the story, it stayed with him all day. And he wanted to change absolutely nothing. So I chose him to publish The Mandrake.<\/em><\/p>\n

It originally appeared in French as La Mandragore<\/em> in a beautifully illustrated book. Fortunately for us today, the illustrations are available online at Gallica and can be viewed here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For a taste of these delicious images, here is the opening page of the story:<\/p>\n

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Opening page, La Mandragore by Jean Lorrain, 1899<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Note the opening letter Q (for Quand\/When). A midwife holds a baby in the form of a frog, for although the Queen had produced a handsome son in earlier years, she has now produced a daughter that is not a human but a frog. And everyone in the court is disturbed and gossiping about it.<\/p>\n

Please check out these illustrations if you read the English version. You’ll be pleased you did. Ideally I could get them published with my translation in the one book! I just have to find out how to purchase them. And then find a publisher. Two very difficult tasks, but not impossible.<\/p>\n

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One of the stories by Jean Lorrain that I’ve translated over the years is La Mandragore (The Mandrake). Recently I put a couple of images on a unique Facebook page, The Golden Age of Illustration. My contribution was from the original illustrated version of 1899 of La Mandragore, and got hundreds of ‘reactions’, as they’re…<\/p>\n

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