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In search of La Pergola: Besse, Godard, BHPT, Google Street View

Posted on August 22, 2018 by

The mysteries of translation are many, but one of my favorites is scouting out locations. I’m submitting my final draft of Besse’s La Grande Pâque at the end of the month and I wanted to share one particular success. In … Continue reading →

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La Grande Pâque draft translation

Posted on July 21, 2017 by

I just finished my second pass through my draft translation of Jacques Besse’s La Grande Pâque, and will be sending it off to an academic publisher who is interested in it by the end of the month. Besse was a … Continue reading →

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The Schizo and the City: Jacques Besse’s La Grande Pâque (AAG paper draft)

Posted on March 20, 2017 by

NOTE: THIS IS A FIRST DRAFT OF WHAT WILL BE A TRANSLATOR’S INTRODUCTION FOR THIS BOOK (CURRENTLY UNDER REVIEW BY MIT PRESS). This is a draft of the paper I will be presenting in a few weeks at the AAG. … Continue reading →

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Besse’s Film Scores

Posted on March 3, 2017 by

UPDATE: You can hear the first piece below.   ORIGINAL POST: I finally tracked down Dédée D’Anvers through interlibrary loan. The opening piece is beautiful and I will post it as soon as I jump through some technical hoops. In … Continue reading →

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Petit-bourgeois fascists, brutal militiamen, and moralizers

Posted on January 4, 2017 by

Besse, pg. 89 (Four pages from the end of my rough translation!): I enter a café across from the Odéon and order my first beer since Saturday. Everyone working there has the dirty look of petit-bourgeois fascists, brutal militiamen, and … Continue reading →

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Jacques Besse on morning

Posted on December 27, 2016 by

My first pass at translating a beautiful passage from page 70-71 of La Grande Pâque: It is after 6:30 in the morning. I take rue de l’École-de-Médecine. Oddly enough, I feel very close to where I am: I dream less … Continue reading →

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Besse on the night sky

Posted on December 15, 2016 by

“Some very high clouds pass by in the light of the satellite, reminding us that the Earth ends at an altitude of 10,000 meters – a swarming universe imprisoned in a thin atmosphere like a fruit in its peel” (La … Continue reading →

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