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◇ ABOUT
val-marie ◈ 28 ◈ he/she ◈ mad(wo)man, visual artist, writer
◇ READ
SUNNY - 15k words vampire novella (2021)
"BOWELS OF MERCIES" short stories:
BABY - 1k words horror short story (2021)
GROWTH - 2k words urban horror short story (2021)
TUNNELS - 1.2k words introspective short story (2022)
MAMA - 1.8k words horror short story (2022)
◇ IN PROGRESS
WHERE DIMITRI BELONGED - literary fiction novel, 43k words, seeking publication
+ various other projects not ready to be public...
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at this time i have taken to translating "where dimitri belonged" into a vaguely antiquated french style, intended to loosely fit into the story's very late 19th-early 20th century chronology. i don't yet have the wherewithal to know if this is interesting or profoundly annoying. once the chapter i have so far translated has been read by a few people, i'll know; maybe it could serve publication for the novel to exist in two languages, though the incredibly different writing styles hardly make the translation sensical (would it be fun to rewrite the whole thing in an older english style as well, or would that only be tedious? i suppose experimenting is needed...).
of course i have hardly written more than a handful of pages in my native french since i was a teenager, and it does not come easy - especially translating turns of phrase that have no good equivalent, and dealing with the issue of gendered pronouns in a very gendered book where the presence of neutrals (or the absence at least of gendered distinction) is sometimes important and cannot be reproduced in french.
when i try my hand at it, i always find myself thinking: i wish i could simply mix both! i've long thought that would be the best possible way to write, to simply switch as i please from one language to the other, to use every saying and every particular word of which i enjoy the sound or rhythm. of course, it would reduce the audience so considerably as to make the effort essentially worthless. see: je pourrais tenter de le faire, mais qui alors pourrais bien me comprendre ? déjà je m'y perdrai myself, and then i would alienate everyone but perhaps the french-canadian, and as i am profondément vapid et gloutonne d'accolades il m'est trop dur d'imaginer écrire sans pouvoir attendre en recevoir as recompense. alors, one must give up on these lofty ideas, and focus on writing at least one thing that some people may read and care about, if at least one cannot find the personal decency to stop caring about "audience".
Excerpt from “Sunny”: getting turned into a vampire is an all-around bad experience.
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Cape Town-based artist Sasha Hartslief creates atmospheric oil paintings of rooms in the house.
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Later that Night - Mattias Härenstam, 2014.
Swedish, b. 1971-
Woodcut , 41.7 × 28 in 106 × 71 cm
"Where Dimitri Belonged” excerpts + ‘A Person In The Snow’ by Geoff Holme - ‘Syberia’ (2002) - ‘Visions / Iles de La Madeleine / Québec’ by Benoit Paillé - Cache Valley Corn Maze
