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item5Circles of Silence (Cahier 3)
Jonathan Harvey and Jean-Claude Carrière
Essay, conversations and meditation inspired by and on Harvey’s latest opera Wagner's Dream.

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C15homepageEvasions (Cahier 15)
Daniel Albright
Parables, poems, and dreams: an attempt translate private experience into something with public meaning.

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C9Notes from the Hall of Uselessness (Cahier 9)
Simon Leys
Meditations on the experience and hazards of literary translation.

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c5Proust, Blanchot and a Woman in Red (Cahier 5)
Lydia Davis
A partial alphabet of Proust translation problems – and their solutions.

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nf3hAristophanes on Eros (Nobile Folios)
Plato
Aristophanes’ celebrated speech on the origin of love from Plato’s Symposium set against Linked Figures.

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isabellaText on Textile (Cahier 6)
Isabella Ducrot
Reflections on the nature of textile and weaving by Roman textile artist.

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c15hWriting Beckett's Letters (Cahier 16)
George Craig
An illuminating essay about the experience of translating the French letters of Samuel Beckett .

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c1Translating Music (Cahier 1)
Richard Pevear
Unique insights into the art and practice of translation alongside an actual translation of a poem by Pushkin.

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vincen1In the Thick of Things (Cahier 11)
Vincen Cornu
Architectural observations that form an attempt to ‘translate’ architectural sensation into words and images.

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c2hWalking on Air (Cahier 2)
Muriel Spark
Nine short pieces by Muriel Spark that show her wit, humour and literary sensitivity.

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Circles of Silence
J Harvey and J-C Carrière