Contr'un
Jean Grave, The Adventures of Nono — Chapter VI
THE ADVENTURES OF NONO by JEAN GRAVE [continued from Chapter V] VI THE END OF THE EVENING The children rushed to the sheds where the tools and props were kept, and there, helped by […]
Jean Grave
Contr'un
Jean Grave, The Adventures of Nono — Chapter V
THE ADVENTURES OF NONO by JEAN GRAVE [continued from Chapter IV] V GLUTTONY PUNISHED The castle that the children headed towards stood on a broad, well-sanded esplanade, cut through large lawns, some of which […]
fiction
Jean Grave, The Adventures of Nono — Chapter IV
THE ADVENTURES OF NONO by JEAN GRAVE [continued from Chapter III] IV IN THE COUNTRY OF AUTONOMY The sun continued its course. If he did not want to let himself by caught by nightfall […]
fiction
Jean Grave, The Adventures of Nono — Chapter III
THE ADVENTURES OF NONO by JEAN GRAVE [continued from Chapter II] III WE LEARN BY TRAVELING The reflections of our little friend were not cheerful: In what country was he? Would he find something […]
fiction
Jean Grave, The Adventures of Nono — Chapter II
[I ended up neglecting The Adventures of Nono for longer than I had intended, while some other projects came together, but it’s time to return to our anarchist children’s novel.] THE ADVENTURES OF NONO by […]
translations
2012 translation plans / an anarchist-communist children’s book from 1901
I’m in the process of working out my 2012 plan of action, including which works I’m going to concentrate of translating. I’m collaborating with a colleague on some of Charles Fourier’s more entertaining writings, and […]
Working Translations
Octave Mirbeau, Preface to Moribund Society and Anarchy
[ezcol_2third] Voltairine de Cleyre translated Jean Grave’s Moribund Society and Anarchy (1899; first published in French in 1893 as La Société mourante et l’Anarchie), though she admitted she was not in complete agreement with it. […]
Working Translations
The Manifesto of the Sixteen (1916)
From various sides, voices are raised to demand immediate peace. There has been enough bloodshed, they say, enough destruction, and it is time to finish things, one way or another. More than anyone, and for a long time, we and our journals have been against every war of aggression between peoples, and against militarism, no matter what uniform, imperial or republican, it dons. So we would be delighted to see the conditions of peace discussed—if that was possible—by the European workers, gathered in an international congress. Especially since the German people let itself be deceived in August 1914, and if they really believed that they mobilized for the defense of their territory, they have since had time to realize that they were wrong to embark on a war of conquest. […]