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Tag: Les Fugitives

Drawn into Being: the drawings of Louise Bourgeois and Jean Frémon’s Nativity

22nd December 202023rd December 2020  Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou

In this creative ‘Christmas’ essay, Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou reflects on the power and therapeutic potential of drawing in her own life, the artistic practise of Louise Bourgeois, and Jean Frémon’s new text Nativity (Les Fugitives).

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Posted in Art and design, Arts, Books, Creative Writing, Non-FictionTagged: Ann Coxon, art, Art History, art therapy, Artist, Books in translation, Christmas, Cole Swensen, creativity, drawing, Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou, Jean Frémon, John Berger, Languages, Les Fugitives, Louise Bourgeois, Lucy Lippard, Motherhood, Nativity, portraiture, pregnancy, Translation, unconscious

Interview with award-winning translator and writer, Natasha Lehrer: ‘Translation is not a word-for-word transposition. It’s another iteration of the book.’

10th September 20205th October 2020  Elodie Rose Barnes

Natasha Lehrer, award-winning translator and writer, talks to Elodie Rose Barnes about translation theory, Oulipo writers, the joy of translating poetry and the brilliance of French author Nathalie Léger’s prose.

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Posted in Arts, Books, InterviewsTagged: Anne Garréta, Cécile Menon, Consent, Emily Wilson, Enoh Meyomesse, French, French Literature, Gaëlle Josse, George Perec, Gilbert Adair, Giulia Mensitieri, Jennifer Croft, Languages, Les Fugitives, Life in Languages, Natasha Lehrer, Nathalie Léger, Oulipo, Simon Armitage, Sophie Hughes, Sphinx, The Last Days of Ellis Island, The White Dress, Tim Parks, Translation, Vanessa Springora

Life in Languages, Chapter 2: Reading in (as) translation

23rd July 202023rd July 2020  Elodie Rose Barnes

Translation as a form of reading and the otherness we embrace within ourselves through translated works are explored in Elodie Rose Barnes’ second piece, as part of her Life in Languages series.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Ananda Devi, Books, Elodie Rose Barnes, Les Fugitives, Life in Languages, Reading, Translation

Life in Languages, Chapter 1: Origins

7th July 202010th July 2020  Elodie Rose Barnes

In this first instalment of her self-conceived series, Life in Languages, Elodie Rose Barnes considers how texts in translation have made an impact on her life and writing, especially during lockdown, and sees the art of translation as a bridge in the era of physical distancing.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Books, Childhood, Elodie Rose Barnes, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Les Fugitives, Life in Languages, Literature, Mireille Gansel, Nancy Drew, Ros Schwartz, The Little Prince, Translation, Translation as Transhumance

The White Dress by Nathalie Léger – a luminous, rich and moving work

14th April 202015th April 2020  Elodie Rose Barnes

Nathalie Léger’s latest experimental novel, The White Dress, beautifully weaves together the protagonist’s own story with that of the late artist Pippa Bacca and performance artists like Marina Abramović.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: body art, Contemporary Art, Exposition, Les Fugitives, Marina Abramović, Natasha Leher, Nathalie Léger, performance art, Pippa Bacca, The White Dress
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