lalangue

  • What does the translator translate?

    By Gerardo Arenas | August 17th, 2018

    We are all translators, readers, interpreters. We are all translated, read, interpreted. Translation, reading, interpretation, occupy a central, crucial place in our existence since before we are born and beyond […]

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  • Barbarians at the Gates of Speech

    By Colin Wright | November 27th, 2015

    It is a signifier that resonates in the deepest echo-chamber of Europe’s self-understanding, bequeathed to us as it is – along with philosophy, rhetoric and democratic ideals – by the […]

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  • Chanson d’Amour and the Jouissance of the Other

    By Scott Wilson | October 2nd, 2015

    Chanson Française owes its origins of course to the Chanson Réaliste moment of Aristide Bruant and Le Chat Noir around 1893 that brought young intellectuals together with the demi monde […]

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