{"id":674,"date":"2019-11-04T18:58:01","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T08:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/patriciaworthtranslator.com\/?p=674"},"modified":"2020-08-29T09:51:42","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T23:51:42","slug":"joseph-olenins-coat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patriciaworthtranslator.com\/index.php\/2019\/11\/04\/joseph-olenins-coat\/","title":{"rendered":"Joseph Olenin’s Coat"},"content":{"rendered":"
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First page, Le Manteau de Joseph Ol\u00e9nine, ‘Les Lettres et les arts’, July 1886, illustrated by Saint-Elme Gautier<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

My translation of Eug\u00e8ne-Melchior de Vog\u00fc\u00e9’s story ‘Le Manteau de Joseph Ol\u00e9nine’ – Joseph Olenin’s Coat – has been republished today by Bewildering Stories.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Back in 2016 it was published in a print journal, The Cossack Review<\/em>, which unfortunately is now defunct. I’m very grateful to the editor of Bewildering Stories<\/em> for giving it a new life.<\/p>\n

To give you a taste I’ll post some of the original illustrations in the July 1886 edition of Les Lettres et les arts<\/em>, with matching excerpts.<\/p>\n

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Le Manteau de Joseph Ole\u0301nine, illus. J. Chelmonski<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

At the post-house in Tashan \u2014 one of those poor hamlets lost in the gorse bushes of a pond, and called Khoutres in Little Russia \u2014 I was torn away from my reading by the voice of my friend Stepan Ivanovitch, the post master, who made me come into his house for a glass of tea.<\/p>\n

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Le Manteau de Joseph Ol\u00e9nine, illus. M. H. Gray<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Each time I approached the desk, my eyes would meet the polonaise; she was lying on the sofa in the half-light of the lamp, with the sort of fantastic, life-like demeanor that long-worn garments have of an evening. Sometimes she seemed to be stirring, sitting up.<\/p>\n

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Le Manteau de Joseph Ol\u00e9nine, illus. J. Chelmonski<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Into the lighted space came a woman\u2019s two small feet emerging from a long men\u2019s coat. My eyes lingered on the coat: it was mine, my old fox-fur pelisse!<\/p>\n

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Joseph Olenin and the Countess having tea, illustration by M. H. Gray<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

She asked the servant for some tea; by the accent of the first Russian words she spoke, I recognized she was Polish, a Polonaise. Everything about her betrayed this particularly formidable family in the female species: the electric gaze, the poisonous perfume, the serpentine suppleness, the unconscious provocativeness of every bit of frippery from her heels to the very last curl of her hair.<\/p>\n

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Le Manteau de Joseph Ol\u00e9nine, illus. J. Chelmonski<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I ran to the dear object and covered it with furtive kisses. The countess, who was spying on me, appeared in a doorway, laughing earnestly.<\/p>\n

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Le Manteau de Joseph Ol\u00e9nine, illus M. H. Gray<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I followed her onto the ponds where she would take her pleasure at skating. When she stumbled as she raced along, I was behind her, trembling with fear that in some fall or other my treasure would be torn; I was ready to catch it in my arms and save it.<\/p>\n

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Hop over to Bewildering Stories<\/a> to read it all. You’ll be pleased you did! The editor has also included a challenge question: In Eug\u00e8ne-Melchior de Vog\u00fc\u00e9\u2019s Joseph Olenin\u2019s Coat<\/a>, is Olenin\u2019s coat fetish ever resolved to his and the Countess\u2019 mutual satisfaction?<\/p>\n

Please let me know if you have an answer!<\/p>\n

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My translation of Eug\u00e8ne-Melchior de Vog\u00fc\u00e9’s story ‘Le Manteau de Joseph Ol\u00e9nine’ – Joseph Olenin’s Coat – has been republished today by Bewildering Stories. Back in 2016 it was published in a print journal, The Cossack Review, which unfortunately is now defunct. I’m very grateful to the editor of Bewildering Stories for giving it a…<\/p>\n

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