The Translatologist

I wrote an article for The Snarkologist, a journal dedicated to The Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll. My article was about Louis Aragon, Nancy Cunard, a small printery in Normandy, Lewis Carroll, the first French Snark, the Surrealists and a couple of other things, and I thought, wouldn’t it be nice to hear some of the music Aragon would have listened to in the Parisian clubs he frequented at the time he worked on his translation of the Snark? So I made a playlist of music that you could hear in Paris in the 1920s/1930s. Enjoy! 

Credits | Concorde: Alexander Jonsson via Wikimedia Commons / Menu: New York Public Library.

Credits | Le France: ND44 via Wikimedia Commons / Menu: New York Public Library

Lazy Sunday walk in Mons.

Efteling, again.

I visited a small 18th-century castle in Belgium recently, and I’m obsessed with the wallpaper.

(Edith Wharton)

I DON’T HAVE A NOTEBOOK PROBLEM YOU HAVE A NOTEBOOK PROBLEM

Château de Seneffe, Belgium, March 2022.

Went to a butterfly conservation farm. It was a nice escape from the real world.

The illustrations are gouache paintings by famous children’s books illustrator Jean Hée. Last year, I spent some time digging through the archives of Les Œuvres représentatives in Normandy, and I found some very amusing letters between Georges Crès (the publisher) and the illustrator as the latter was insanely late on all of his deadlines, as well as the original paintings, which were the same size as those presented in the book, and very, very pretty. 

There’s a rock that looks like a face near where I live and we’re all generally content with its existence.

I love the Efteling so damn much.