#colette peignot

[majestativa]

Follow the evil to its root. Confront the wound; look at it—put your finger on it.

COLETTE PEIGNOT — Laure: The Collected Writings, transl. Jeanine Herman, (1995)

[virgin-martyr]

rereading “Story of a Little Girl” by Laure trans. Jeanine Herman

[mauvais--sang]

—Kathy Acker, Translations of the Diaries of Laure, 1983

[deadbutbetter]

kathy acker. translations from the diary of laure

[nekozalenky]

colette peignot, from "fragment of a letter" in laure: the collected writings

[bioabsurdity]

Laure, letter to Georges Bataille, 1934 / Georges Bataille, Blue of Noon, 1935 (published in 1957)

[apocalypticbastards]

Translations of the Diaries of Laure by Kathy Acker; published in Issue 3 of SOUP Magazine (1983)

link to pdf: https://editions-ismael.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1983-Kathy-Acker-Diaries-of-Laure-Colette-Peignot.pdf

(includes higher res and an introduction by the editor/publisher Steve Abbott on translation that’s pretty interesting)

full issue on jstor: https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.28045062?searchText=&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3DSteve%2BAbbott&ab_segments=0%2Fbasic_search_gsv2%2Fcontrol&searchKey=&refreqid=fastly-default%3A866fcbc6484d397fa45286609f105db4&seq=6

[intopermanence]

push your thorns into my flesh

Laure, trans. by Jeanine Herman, from The Collected Writings: “The Red Notebook”