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Category Archives: André Breton
Nadja in French, and Nadja in English
It is a well-known fact of course that something gets lost when you read a work in translation, but sometimes the loss can be greater than expected. Take André Breton’s Nadja, for instance. To the best of my knowledge, the … Continue reading
Posted in André Breton, Phototexts, Picture novels
Tagged André Breton, English translation, Nadja, photo-text, picture novels, Richard Howard
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