đ«On writing and translating The Topeka School, with Ben Lerner and Jakuta Alikavazovicđ«
The Shakespeare and Company Interview
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How to Translate French Prose
I had a surprisingly hard time with the purple cow cow because it looks so simple and you know so innocuous. You have to unpack without unpacking because it's not lost in the book you're just stating it. Do you read out loud to see if the prosely the musicality that written if it's there? I do tend to betray the Frenchness of syntax to accommodate Ben's genius. No the other trick is very French it comes from FĂŒhbre and you have to read out loud and it works. Whatever type of text you're working on but it works as well with translations. Can you think of any sort of specific mode maybe it's too long ago now but
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