Working Translations
Renzo Novatore, “Je… / I…”
Je… Je fus toujours celui que je fus, et je serai celui que je pourrai être ; car deux sujets relatifs seuls sont vrais: le soleil ne pourrait être la lune, mais si par hypothèse […]
Working Translations
Working Translations
Aurèle Patorni, “L’Androgyne / The Androgyne” (1920)
L’АNDRОGУNЕ Моn torse est d’une femme et mes bras et ma croupe Мais j’ai des muscles d’homme et, dans mon large flanc, Je cache un sexe male émergeant de la coupe Ой souvent je confonds […]
poetry
E. Armand, “Le dernier nuage / The Last Cloud” (1929)
The sun is no longer visible, but there is still a brightness in the atmosphere. All the clouds melt into the indistinct sky, only broken here and there by a few luminous points. A small cloud, very high on the horizon, still remains colored by the multiple lights of the setting sun. […]
Working Translations
E. Armand, “Points de repère” (1926-1937)
POINTS DE REPÈRE Mon ami Tu te dis mon ami et sous prétexte qu’un ami doit la vérité à son ami, tu fais le censeur et le sermonneur. Comme si le maitre d’école de ma […]
Working Translations
E. Armand, “Parmi ce qui se publie” (1923-1939)
André LORULOT : Chez les Loups, mœurs anarchistes. Editions de l’Idée Libre, 6 fr. Chez Les Loups est le premier livre que j’ai lu à ma sortie de la Maison Centrale de Nîmes et malgré […]
Working Translations
Joannès Tobas, “Arrestation de Ravachol / Arrest of Ravachol”
There is a single, blurry image floating around the internet of a poster or broadside featuring a poetic complainte on the topic of the “Arrestation de Ravachol.” What I am presenting here is a rather less poetic reconstruction of the piece, featuring a different—significantly less blurry—portrait of Ravachol and a rather literal rendering of the account presented.
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poetry
E. Armand, “Les papillons de nuit / Moths” (1916)
Les papillons de nuit THÉORIQUEMENT, je ne suis pas tendre pour les inaptes à l’effort, Et j’avoue que je ne me lamenterais pas outre mesure si ceux qui ne peuvent se passer d’autorité libéraient de […]
Working Translations
Ovide Ducauroy, “Je suis… / I am…” (1925)
An invincible loathing of the hierarchy is the characteristic of the anarchists; to obey one’s conscious loathing, to disobey social conventions, forms personal character. […]
Working Translations
E. Armand, “Eveil / Awakening” (1930)
Barely eighteen months old and already mischievous, impish, rebellious… What can be going on inside that childish brain? Behind that pure, calm brow, like a newly broken dawn, what dreams come and go, fading, only to be born again? […]
Proudhon Library
P.-J. Proudhon, “Principles of the Philosophy of Progress” (selections)
[Ms. 2867, part of “Economy,” contains a section on the “Principles of the Philosophy of Progress,” which focuses on the character of collective beings and collective reason, as well as sections applying the principles.] PRINCIPLES […]