French/English Archives - Page 17 of 25 - The Libertarian Labyrinth

Gigi Damiani, “Jesus and Bonnot: A Christmas Tale” (FR/EN) (1927)

November 9, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

The gray car is stopped alongside a ditch, at the edge of the woods (which of its nerves has tensed? — which of its arteries has clogged, refusing the vital rush to its heart?) and under the car a young man crawls, thrashes, swears. On the road, his footsteps silent on the carpet of yellowed leaves (for we are in autumn, the sad autumn of all things!) He approaches. He is a blond vagabond, his long hair unkempt, his beard parted at the chin. […]

Han Ryner, “What is the Individual?” (1919)

October 20, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

Ce qu’est l’individu L’individu est un être complexe, indéfinissable. Or, seul l’individu possède quelque chose qui puisse être appelé sans trop de mensonge l’existence. Donc, comme le savaient déjà les philosophes cyniques, rien de réel, […]

E. Armand, “Sentimentality” (1939)

October 19, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

Because she was very young
I have spoken very sweet words to her
So sweet that I have felt her heart melt. […]

E. Armand, “In the World, but Not of the World” (1901)

October 19, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

Une méditation par mois Dans le monde, mais pas du monde …Je leur ai donné la parole et le monde les a haïs, parce qu’ils ne sont pas du monde, comme moi je ne suis […]

Louis Estève, “Opinion” (1937)

October 17, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

As I see it, the an-archist intends that every adult human individual should be SOVEREIGN, — “son of the king,” as Arthur de Gobineau said… Sovereign! That is, without any hierarchical power that hangs over them. […]

E. Armand, “Tout n’est pas encore perdu / All Is Not Yet Lost” (1937)

October 17, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

tout n’est pas encore perdu Tout n’est pas encore perdu, amie douce, puisque nos yeux pourront voir un printemps de plus. Oui, je sais la Bête rôde, la lippe pendante, vaniteuse, hurlant, triomphante. On exécute […]

E. Armand, “On me reproche de manquer d’idéal” (1928) (FR/EN)

October 17, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

I am reproached for lacking an ideal,
and those who gorge themselves on that food do not hesitate to let me know.
It is true that it is a dish that never figures on my menu
and I do not know to what part of a living being it belongs. […]

Henri Zisly, “A Question of Temperaments” (1910)

October 16, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

Why are there various tendencies in anarchism? Because of the diversity of temperaments. […]

Henri Zisly, “What the Naturians Are, Precisely” (1910)

October 16, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

Ce que sont exactement les Naturiens. MISE AU POINT Pour répondre à diverses critiques tant verbales qu’écrites, nous déclarons à nouveau que 1. — Les naturiens ne sont pas anarchistes si l’on considère leurs conceptions […]

Sébastien Faure, “La Révolte / The Revolt” (1886)

October 16, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

We are the persecuted
Of all times and all races
Always we have been exploited
By the tyrants and predators
But we no longer want to bend
Under the yoke that yoked our fathers
For we want to free ourselves
From those who cause our miseries […]