The Final Orgasm, illustration for the RE/Search edition of Octave Mirbeau's The Torture Garden, 1989
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The Final Orgasm, illustration for the RE/Search edition of Octave Mirbeau's The Torture Garden, 1989
Photo by Bobby Neel Adams
Albert Camus
False identity card established in 1943. At that time, Albert Camus has just published *The Plague*, he writes for *Combat* and joins the Resistance.
Camus, parle de l'incipit de L'Étranger.
Camus speaks about the opening of The Stranger
“I think I'm beginning to see my life. I think I can already say, I have a vague desire to die. From now on I treat that word and my life as inseparable. I think I have a vague desire to be alone, just as I realize I've never been alone any more since I left childhood behind, and the family of the hunter. I'm going to write.”
-Marguerite Duras, The Lover, trans. Barbara Bray (1984).
George Sand. ♡
Juliette Drouet, from a letter to Victor Hugo, written on 1834
Women's imaginary is inexhaustible, like music, painting, writing: their stream of phantasms is incredible.
Hélène Cixous, The Laugh of the Medusa
Random Thought about Translation...
📚And why I feel so honored and pleased doing it!🪶
(Texte en français après "Afficher davantage", venez donc les amoureux de la langue de Molière ❤)
For the past weeks, I've had the honour and pleasure of being my dear @malohkeh-main's beta reader for her French translation of "Demon and Angel Professors", a gorgeous and gigantic Good Omens AU written by Ghostinthehouse aka @ineffableghost.
Malohkeh does the heavy work, while your humble servant adapts the text as best as possible for French readers. A hard but fascinating work!
Just so you know, each chapter of the English text is exactly 666 words, and Malohkeh made sure to respect this from the beginning. Sometimes, it is possible to manage to end up with a satisfying, coherent translation at 666 words. And sometimes you just cannot do it in French language (AO3 even counts some punctuation marks as words!). So we keep a wordcount made of 3, 6, 7 and 9 for reasons of our own.
Today I worked on the one-shot titled "Would I lie to you" and it was definitely a 666-achievable chapter, while being fluid to read in French. That moment when I tweak, tweak, and tweak again...reading and reading, going from 661 to 668 words, then 665, 667, 663...before reaching the last sentence. A sentence where I go full YOLO in my prettiest french-writing mode, then save the draft...and the word count claims "666". Muhahaha. It just feels like this to me:
If you haven't read "Demon and Angel Professors" I can only encourage you to do it here!
And if you're a Francophone, please have a look at our first translations! Give us a feedback if you'd like!
And thank you so much @vanam0nde for checking/translating my ineffable babblings on Tumblr!