fiction
Han Ryner, “The Paradox” (1913)
ORIGINAL THE PARADOX By Han Ryner I know a country in which the inhabitants are always clothed. Beside the woman in labor, the priest and magistrate wait and, as soon as the child appears, seizing […]
Working Translations
fiction
Han Ryner, “The Little Exile” (1920)
ORIGINAL The Little Exile By Han Ryner On this heavy, stormy summer Sunday, how did I let myself be led to these noisy celebrations? Under a scorching sun, that my companions declared “almost southern,” I […]
Beyond the Labyrinth
A Voyage from Pole to Pole by way of the Center of the Earth (1721)
An Account of a Voyage from the Arctic to the Antarctic Pole by way of the Center of the Earth. With the description of that perilous Passage, & of the marvelous & astonishing things that […]
Proudhon Library
Society for the Mutual Education of Women, “Response to Satan on the Subject of Mr. Proudhon”
[When George Dairnvaell attacked Pierre-Joseph Proudhon in 1848, an anonymous member of the Society for the Mutual Education of Women, an organization founded by Jeanne Deroin and Désirée Gay Gay, came to his defense] [Note: […]
Proudhon Library
“Satan,” “The History of Mr. Proudhon and His Doctrines” (1849)
THE HISTORY OF MR. PROUDHON AND HIS DOCTRINES BY SATAN [GEORGES DAIRNVAELL] I have been, for an entire month, delivered to the “jackals of the press and the owls of the gallery. Never has […]
Working Translations
Louise Michel, “The New Era” (1887)
[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”][/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] THE NEW ERA Louise Michel I Like sap in April, the blood rises in a secular revival in the old human tree (the old tree of […]
Working Translations
Frédéric Tufferd, “Unity in Socialism” (1887)
It’s always fun to be able to add a new name to the list of historical mutualists, and particularly so when the new name comes with articulate writings. Frédéric Tufferd (or Teufferd) is one of […]
poetry
Eugène Pottier, “Already!” (dedicated to Paule Mink)
ALREADY! Eugène Pottier To the citizen Paule Mink. At the break of day, the snow falls, Swirled by the air; A sheet of dove’s feathers Covers the deserted cobblestones. I soon passed that way again, […]
The Sex Question
Jenny d’Héricourt, “Appeal to Women” and “Profession of Faith”
[I’ve been working on an anthology of Jenny P. d’Héricourt’s works, combining her two-volume Woman Affranchised with an assortment of other works of feminist philosophy. d’Héricourt was, of course, one of Proudhon’s opponents on the […]
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Eugène Stourm, “God, Women and Proudhon”
[Slowly, but surely, I’m assembling the various feminist responses to Proudhon. The pages of L’Opinion des Femmes is rich with that sort of thing, since it was Jeanne Deroin’s primary forum at the time she […]