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.
Louise Michel
Travels in the Louiseverse
TEXTS: “Why We are Anarchists” — 1891 “Why I am an Anarchist” — 1896 TRANSLATIONS: The Claque-Dents (in progress) Prologue (FR/EN) Chapter I (FR/EN) Chapter II (FR/EN) Chapter III (FR/EN) Chapters IV-VI “The Clavier of My Over-Dream“(1867) (FR/EN) “The Crows” The Imperial Bastard (excerpts) “Nadine” (play about Bakunin) “The Strike” (play) The New Era (1887) The New Era A Final Thought (FR/EN) Memories of Caledonia (poem) (FR/EN) “Old Abraël” (1888) (FR/EN) “Old Chéchette” (1884) (FR/EN) “Today or Tomorrow” (1892) (FR/EN) Louise Michel’s writings are a strange mix of literary brilliance and serious disarray. Many of her published works were issued […]
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 […]
drama
Louise Michel, “The Strike”
This English translation of “The Strike appeared in The Commonweal. THE STRIKE A DRAMA by LOUISE MICHEL. ________ Characters in the Prologue: Gertrude. (Secretly married to Vladimir.) Mache and Rita, Sisters, betrothed to two brothers who have been hanged. Vladimir. Nemo, Zniriki and Orloffski, Revolutionists. The People of Warsaw. The Grand Duke and his suite. Characters in the Play: Eleazar, a Financier. Gertrude, wife to Eleazar. Marius, Esther and Nicaise, children of Eleazar by a former wife. Silvester, styled Baron Ulysses. Madame de Bleuze, a sick woman. Madame de Roseray. Blanche and Margerite, daughters of Madame de Roseray. Fishermen; Miners; […]