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Joys and Perils of Rereading
My own introduction to Proust came first via my bookish mother, whose enthusiastic recommendation was enough to put me off for some years (such are the unfortunate vagaries of adolescence). When I finally started reading Swann’s Way it was in French, in France, when I was meant to be working on something else entirely.
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Residencies in Review: Banff International Literary Translation Centre
Let me first say that Banff is one of the most naturally beautiful places I have ever visited. The Banff Centre, a small complex set up in the hills overlooking the tourist town of Banff, is equipped with dining facilities, a gym, a wonderful library, performance spaces and comfortable, hotel-style rooms. Each year, BILTC brings together a fantastic group of translators and authors to work (both collaboratively and individually), talk about literature in translation, and be inspired by the natural wonder that is the Canadian Rockies.
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Proust's Letters and Life
Admirers of Proust have to overcome an anxiety before embarking on any study of his life; an awareness that Proust himself wouldn't have been very happy to hear that we are focusing on it.
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Writer par excellence
I find it extraordinary that whenever the national media in the U. S. wants to typify the writer par excellence it is usually Proust who is cited. His name crops up all the time in The New Yorker (as do new cartoons to add to the already impressive list; more cartoons devoted to Proust than to any other writer, I'm sure), The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, etc.
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Residencies in Review: Villa Gillet
The atmosphere is serene and silent, perfect for working in solitude. Lyon is an amazingly walkable city, with a wealth of parks, museums, churches, theaters, and an opera house. It was undoubtedly one of the finest months I have spent in France!
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Beatriz Preciado has become one of the leading thinkers in the study of gender and sexuality. A professor of Political History of the Body, Gender Theory, and History of Performance at Paris VIII, she is also the author of Manifiesto contrasexual, which has become a queer theory classic, and Pornotopía: Architecture and Sexuality in Playboy During the Cold War, which has was a finalist for the 2010 Anagrama Essay Prize. She received her PhD in the Theory of Architecture at Princeton and her Masters in Contemporary Philosophy and Gender Theory at the New School for Social Research in New York.
Beatriz Preciado / Walls & Bridges
Beatriz Preciado has become one of the leading thinkers in the study of gender and sexuality. A professor of Political History of the Body, Gender Theory, and History of Performance at Paris VIII, she is also the author of Manifiesto contrasexual, which has become a queer theory classic, and Pornotopía: Architecture and Sexuality in Playboy During the Cold War, which has was a finalist for the 2010 Anagrama Essay Prize. She received her PhD in the Theory of Architecture at Princeton and her Masters in Contemporary Philosophy and Gender Theory at the New School for Social Research in New York.
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Interview with Boulet
Boulet refers to his work as autofiction. “Things always go wrong,” he told Bell, “it’s never completely true.” Perhaps you can find the tools to tell truth from fiction in this interview with American comic artist Jim Benton and critic Scott McCloud.
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Pascal Dibie is a professor of ethnology at the University of Paris Diderot-Paris 7, where he is co-director of the division of sciences of the city. He is the author of a two-part ethnology of a village in Burgundy that has become a classic in the discipline: Le Village retrouvé, ethnologie de l’intérieur (Grasset, 1979) and thirty years later, Le village métamorphosé, révolution dans la France profonde (Plon, 2006). He is also the author of Ethnologie de la chambre à coucher, which has been translated into fifteen languages and has sold 30,000 copies.
Pascal Dibie / Walls & Bridges
Pascal Dibie is a professor of ethnology at the University of Paris Diderot-Paris 7, where he is co-director of the division of sciences of the city. He is the author of a two-part ethnology of a village in Burgundy that has become a classic in the discipline: Le Village retrouvé, ethnologie de l’intérieur (Grasset, 1979) and thirty years later, Le village métamorphosé, révolution dans la France profonde (Plon, 2006). He is also the author of Ethnologie de la chambre à coucher, which has been translated into fifteen languages and has sold 30,000 copies.
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Michèle Audin is a French mathematician, and a professor at the Institut de recherche mathématique avancée (IRMA) in Strasbourg (France), where she does research notably in the area of symplectic geometry. Born in 1954, she is a former student of l’École normale supérieure de jeunes filles within the École normale supérieure de Sèvres. Audin became a member of the OuLiPo in 2009.
Michèle Audin / Walls & Bridges
Michèle Audin is a French mathematician, and a professor at the Institut de recherche mathématique avancée (IRMA) in Strasbourg (France), where she does research notably in the area of symplectic geometry. Born in 1954, she is a former student of l’École normale supérieure de jeunes filles within the École normale supérieure de Sèvres. Audin became a member of the OuLiPo in 2009.
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Peter Szendy (born 1966 in Paris) is a French philosopher and musicologist. He teaches at the Université de Paris X Nanterre and is a consultant to IRCAM (Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique / Musique), an organization that has been a pioneer in electroacoustic innovation and a mecca for contemporary music.
Peter Szendy / Walls & Bridges
Peter Szendy (born 1966 in Paris) is a French philosopher and musicologist. He teaches at the Université de Paris X Nanterre and is a consultant to IRCAM (Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique / Musique), an organization that has been a pioneer in electroacoustic innovation and a mecca for contemporary music.
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Frédéric Boyer is the author of more than 30 books. For years, his works have oscillated between personal writings and the reinterpretation and translation of major ancient texts. He’s notably undertaken, with a number of contemporary writers (Olivier Cadiot, Jean Echenoz, Florence Delay, Jacques Roubaud, Marie Ndiaye, Valère Novarina among others), a new translation of the bible, which was published by Bayard in 2001.
Frédéric Boyer / Walls and Bridges
Frédéric Boyer is the author of more than 30 books. For years, his works have oscillated between personal writings and the reinterpretation and translation of major ancient texts. He’s notably undertaken, with a number of contemporary writers (Olivier Cadiot, Jean Echenoz, Florence Delay, Jacques Roubaud, Marie Ndiaye, Valère Novarina among others), a new translation of the bible, which was published by Bayard in 2001. 
