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Nadja in French, and Nadja in English

Posted on November 9, 2011 by Patrick Lennon

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 →

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A photo-text is a phototext is a photo text. Or is it?

Posted on October 19, 2011 by Patrick Lennon

One of the funny things about “novels with pictures in them” is that, as I’ve said before, no one really agrees on what to call them, be it “illustrated novels”, or “iconotexts”, or “image-texts”, or “novels with photographs”, or “photography-embedded … Continue reading →

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