I’ve been puttering away at translating some short items from one of the radical socialist almanacs available online. This evening, I’ve posted an article on “Worker Mortality,” by Paule Mink, and an obituary of Emile Digeon, the hero of the Narbonne Commune and theorist of “rational anarchism.” There are quite a number of other interesting items in the Almanach de la Question Sociale. I’m working on a letter about Louise Michel at the moment [now complete], and I’ll probably return to a couple of other items by Paule Mink and Louise Michel as time allows.
Working Translations
Emile Digeon, “Proposal for the Indictment of Gambetta & the Ministers” (1881)
[ezcol_2third] PROPOSAL FOR THE INDICTMENT OF GAMBETTA & THE MINISTERS Whereas it is clear, That Gambetta has, for several months, pursued in his paper, La République Française, a campaign to depreciate Tunisian values; That, as a result of that campaign, these values have been cornered at the lowest prices: by a politico-financial gang, evidently accomplices of the author of the depreciation; That the expedition against Tunisia has allowed the monopolists of Tunisian values to resell them with an illegitimate profit of more than fifty millions; That Gambetta has exerted a corrupting action to assemble a docile majority, in order to […]
Bakunin Library
From Louise Michel’s “The Imperial Bastard”
I’ve been reading bits and pieces of Louise Michel’s novels, as part of a larger project to get a general sense of what’s out there, and naturally with some eye to what might be worth translating in the future. One of the titles I’ve been looking at today is a massive work, Le Bâtard Impérial, co-written with Jean Winter and published in 1883. One of the major plot-lines of the novel involves Yvan, who has been an executioner in Russian prisoners, and who, through a plot twist that seems to involve mistaken identities and one of Michel’s favorite plot devices, […]
Bakunin Library
Louise Michel, “Nadine”
A Corvus Edition [pdf] NADINE by Louise Michel CHARACTERS Michel Bakunin. The Prince. Serge, his aide de camp. The Count Toscof, exile, father of Serge. Patelski. Belly. Miérolowski. Jacques Széla, patriot. Alexander Herzen. Count Wodzicki. Wolf, banker. Kokoski, police officer. Popof, police officer. Two Frenchmen. Two Bourgeois from Krakow. Two Officers. A Sentinel. A Herald. Two Guards. A Miner. Two Krakuses. Princess Nadine. The Countess Sophia Pouskine. Two Women of the People. Soldiers, police officers, peasants, Krakuses, men of the People, miners, bourgeois, valets, officers, lords. TABLEAUX THE REBELLION. THE SPY. THE BAILIFF OF DAMBIEC. THE MINES OF WIÉLICZKA. THE […]