I have previously posted a short excerpt from Louise Michel’s novel, The Imperial Bastard, which featured Bakunin as a main character. Michel also adapted some elements from that novel in dramatic form as Nadine, a political tragedy set in the Polish rebellions of 1846. I’ve posted a working translation of that play now at the Working Translations blog. As with all of these new translations, there are some rough spots to smooth, but in this case it’s mostly a case of making sense of the details of the stage directions, and I think all the charm of Michel’s Bakunin comes through.
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 […]
Anarchist Beginnings
Louise Michel, “Why we are Anarchists” (1891)
We are Anarchists because it is absolutely impossible to obtain justice for all in any other way than by destroying institutions founded on force and privilege. We cannot believe that improvement is possible, if we […]
Contr'un
Louise Michel as a Fiction Writer / The Claque-Dents
One of the results of my continuing research on anarchism is that I occasionally find whole new genres of anarchist writing opening up in front of me. And recently, between my work on radical feminist […]