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Translations

April 13th, 2023 · 2 Comments

I never expected to write so many literary translations. They keep adding up, however. Here’s a list, arranged by author, of both books and shorter pieces, for anyone who’s curious.

Albert-Birot, Pierre: “Four Poems” (Typo 2, 2023)

Allais, Alphonse: Captain Cap: His Adventures, His Ideas, His Drinks (Black Scat, 2013)
Selected Plays (Black Scat, 2014)
The Squadron’s Umbrella (Black Scat, 2015)
The Blaireau Affair (Black Scat, 2015)
Double Over (Black Scat, 2016)
I Am Sarcey (Black Scat, 2017)
Long Live Life! (Black Scat, 2017)
No Bile! (Black Scat, 2018)
Pink and Apple-Green (Black Scat, 2020)
2 + 2 = 5 (Black Scat, 2021)
Loves, Delights, and Organs (Black Scat, 2022)
Let’s Not Hit Each Other (Black Scat, 2023)
We Are Not Sheep (Black Scat, 2023)

Apollinaire, Guillaume: “Introduction” (The Zombie of Great Peru, Black Scat, 2015)
“Victory” (Typo 2, 2023)

Auriol, George: “A Little Semi-Hieroglyphic Tale” (Merde à la Belle Époque, Black Scat, 2022)

Bertrand, Aloysius: “Instructions to the Typesetter” (Typo 3, 2023)

Blessebois, Pierre-Corneille: The Zombie of Great-Peru (Black Scat, 2015)

Cami, Pierre: “The Man in the Iron Mask” (Black Scat Review 1, 2012)

Caradec, François: “Absinthes” (Black Scat Review 3, 2013)

Casanova de Seingalt, Giacomo: “English Etiquette” (from Histoire de ma vie) (Black Scat Review 25, 2022)

Courteline, Georges: “A Stubborn Case of Constipation” (Merde à la Belle Époque, Black Scat, 2022)

Crépiat, Caroline: Le Chat Noir Exposed (Black Scat, 2021)

Cros, Charles: “Song of the Sculptors” (Black Scat Review 18, 2019)
Collected Monologues (Black Scat, 2018)
Upside-Down Stories (with Émile Goudeau) (Black Scat, 2019)
Principles of Cerebral Mechanics (Wakefield Press, 2021)
The Science of Love (Wakefield Press, 2024)

Descaves, Lucien: The Rat Wins! (Black Scat, 2024)

Donneau de Visé, Jean: “The Noble Apothecary” (Black Scat Review 25, 2022)

Farnoux-Reynaud, Lucien: The Cocktail Hour (with Marcel Requien) (Corps Reviver, 2017, with Gaylor Olivier)

Forneret, Xavier: “It’s — A Dream” and “Selection from Dreams” (Strange Attractor Journal 3, 2006)

Gautier, Théophile: A Filthy Letter: Letter to La Présidente. (Black Scat, 2024)

Gill, André: “The Anderlique of Landerneau” (Merde à la Belle Époque, Black Scat, 2022)

Goudeau, Émile: Upside-Down Stories (with Charles Cros) (Black Scat, 2019)

Haraucourt, Edmond: “Philosophy: A Shameful Sonnet” (Merde à la Belle Époque, Black Scat, 2022)

Hyspa, Vincent: “The Flatulist: A Song Without Music” (Merde à la Belle Époque, Black Scat, 2022)

Isou, Isidore: Considerations on the Death and Burial of Tristan Tzara (Black Scat, 2012)

Jarry, Alfred: “Mobilization of Tourists” and “Hanging” (Le Scat Noir 225, 2017)
The Pope’s Mustard-Maker (Black Scat, 2019)

Jouy, Jules: “The Functionaries” (Black Scat Review 18, 2019)
“The Little Shits’ Journal” (Merde à la Belle Époque, Black Scat, 2022)

La Fontaine, Jean de: “The Glutton,” “The Farmer Who Had Lost His Calf,” and “Sister Joan” (The Doug Skinner Dossier, Black Scat, 2015)

Lautrec, Gabriel de: “Cubist Tale” (Typo 4, Black Scat, 2024)

MacNab, Maurice: “The Clyster-Pump” (Merde à la Belle Époque, Black Scat, 2022)

Masson, Armand: “The Eye” (Merde à la Belle Époque, Black Scat, 2022)

Mirbeau, Octave:”The Fugitive Cucumber” and “Explosive and Ambulatory” (extra stories in Allais’s 2 + 2 = 5) (Black Scat, 2021)

Moy, Jules: “The Unicolorist” (Black Scat Review 4, 2016)

Nazari, Giovanni Battista: Three Dreams: On the Transmutation of Metals (Magnum Opus Hermetic Sourceworks, 2002)

Palatino, Giambattista: “Squared Ciphers” (Typo 1, 2022)

Queneau, Raymond: “Lipogram” (Le Scat Noir 227, 2017)
“The Statue People on the Lawn” and “Place de la Bastille” (Black Scat Review 23, 2021)

Renard, Jules: “Alphonse Allais Gives a Talk” (Black Scat Review 3, 2013)

Requien, Marcel: The Cocktail Hour (with Lucien Farnoux-Reynaud) (Corps Reviver, 2017, with Gaylor Olivier)

Rimbaud, Arthur: “The Accursed Cherub” (Merde à la Belle Èpoque, Black Scat, 2022)

Roussel, Raymond: “Travels with Raymond” (sentences accompanying images by Derek Pell, Typo 3, 2023)

Russolo, Luigi: The Art of Noises (Black Scat, 2022)

Salis, Rodolphe: “Messire Satanas in the Colickie Comfit-Box” (Merde à la Belle Époque, Black Scat, 2022)

Satie, Erik: “A Letter to Conrad Satie” (Merde à la Belle Époque, 2022)

Tabarin: “The Louis XIII Jokeshop” (Typo 5, 2024)

Tailhade, Laurent: “Hydrotherapy” (Black Scat Review 18, 2019)

Taunay, Corinne: Marcel Duchamp: Paris Air in New York (Black Scat, 2022)

Verne, Jules: “To Morphine” (The Doug Skinner Dossier, Black Scat, 2015)

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2 responses so far ↓

  • 1 Mamie // May 8, 2023 at 12:46 am

    That’s a crazy lot.

  • 2 Norman Conquest // Jun 16, 2023 at 1:52 pm

    It is a grand body of work that deserves to be saluted & celebrated with a standing (or sitting for those who can’t stand) ovation — cheers & gales of awe.

    Gales of awe? I wish I could blame that on AI.