Contr'un
Working Translations blog
I have been featuring the list of “working translations” on the sidebar of this blog for quite awhile now, and it has reached the point of being a bit ungainly, taking up space that perhaps […]
Working Translations
fiction
Paschal Grousset, “The Dream of an Irreconcilable” (1869)
[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] [/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] I’ve posted a working translation of Paschal Grousset’s 1869 The Dream of an Irreconcilable, an odd little political “utopia” of sorts, which begins with the […]
fiction
Han Ryner, Deo Optimo Maximo (1919)
Deo Optimo Maximo By Han Ryner L’HOMME parle: O Dieu, tu ne saurais m’entendre, et pourtant je te parle. Comme il m’arrive de parler à Hélène, à don Quichotte, à Faust, ou à quelque autre […]
fiction
Han Ryner, “Duel upon Duel” (“The Penny-Pincher”) (1899)
Duel sur Duel (L’AVARE) Par Han Ryner LORSQUE, au bras de son mari, Mme Geneviève Serre se promenait sur l’Esplanade, grande, souple et lente, le visage vaguement éclairé d’un sourire, les jeunes gens de la […]
Proudhon Library
Henriette, artiste, “Letter to Proudhon” (1849)
[“En amour, la propriété c’est le viol.” One of the major voices in French feminist circles around the time of the 1848 Revolution signed her name as “Henriette, artiste,” and was probably Henriette Wild. She […]
poetry
Jeanne Marie, “Revelation” (1849)
[“Jeanne Marie” (probably Jeanne-Marie Monniot) also contributed this poem to l’Opinion des Femmes. A literal translation follows.] Révelation. Mère, comme il fait froid! la terre est toute blanche; Le mont, déjà trois fois, a roulé […]
The Sex Question
Jeanne Marie, “On Woman” (1849)
[The articles by “Jeanne Marie” in l’Opinion des Femmes have been attributed to a number of people, including Jeanne Deroin and Jeanne-Marie-Fabienne Poinsard, aka Jenny d’Hericourt, but the most likely identification seems to be Jeanne-Marie […]
fourierism
Edouard Silberling, Entries from the Dictionary Of Phalansterian Sociology
[ezcol_2third] Entries from the DICTIONARY OF PHALANSTERIAN SOCIOLOGY ABANDONMENT.—The abandonment of the weak, of children and of the elderly is one of the characteristics that civilization has borrowedfrom savagery. New Industrial World.109, 407, 424.—The civilized […]
fiction
Jenny P. d’Hericourt (as Félix Lamb), “The Valain Family” (1847)
The Valain Family. It was January 7; the winter was cold and foggy; the icy north wind roared around the ancient buildings of old Paris blew off the snow, which, like a white shroud, covered […]
The Sex Question
Jeanne Deroin, “To the members of the commission of the banquet of socialist priests” (1849)
To the members of the commission of the banquet of socialist priests. Citizens, I come to your banquet because women are also priests, and they must have a place in the temple, as in the […]