🏫On writing and translating The Topeka School, with Ben Lerner and Jakuta Alikavazovic🏫
The Shakespeare and Company Interview
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The Importance of Competitive Debate in France
I was gonna ask you to concerning rendering this kind of concept I guess into into French because I think as a sort of a British person in France of like France as a culture which sort of embraces and celebrates a certain type of debate. You have to be extra careful not to conjure those ideas in a context in the context that's a different one in which they don't fit. If you imagine teenagers dressed up in suits and with ties and taking themselves extremely seriously um you're not pointing to the to the friendly game you debate. That's uh that's that's been mythologized in France as well so you luckily when you're translating from American English you can always rely on a fundamental
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