fiction
Han Ryner, Deo Optimo Maximo (1919)
Deo Optimo Maximo By Han Ryner L’HOMME parle: O Dieu, tu ne saurais m’entendre, et pourtant je te parle. Comme il m’arrive de parler à Hélène, à don Quichotte, à Faust, ou à quelque autre […]
French/English
fiction
Han Ryner, “Duel upon Duel” (“The Penny-Pincher”) (1899)
Duel sur Duel (L’AVARE) Par Han Ryner LORSQUE, au bras de son mari, Mme Geneviève Serre se promenait sur l’Esplanade, grande, souple et lente, le visage vaguement éclairé d’un sourire, les jeunes gens de la […]
Working Translations
Joseph Déjacque, “The Revolutionary Question”
La question révolutionnaire par Joseph Déjacque Notre ennemi, c’est notre maître (La Fontaine) The Revolutionary Question by Joseph Déjacque Our enemy is our master. (La Fontaine) Extrait du journal ” Le Républicain “ 1. La Société de […]
translations
Proudhon’s “Toast to the Revolution” (revised translation)
Proudhon’s “Toast to the Revolution” was the first major translation I posted on the blog, back in July of 2007. Little did I know at the time how much translating I would end up doing, […]
anarchist individualism
E. Armand, “On Sexual Liberty” (1916) (FR/EN)
In the past, I’ve translated a number of short essays by E. Armand, and thoroughly enjoyed reading several more, without entirely convincing myself that Armand is an important anarchist figure. The brand of Nietzschean individualism […]
Working Translations
Emile Pouget, “Sabotage” (from the Almanach du Père Peinard, 1898)
This short essay on sabotage covers some of the same ground as Pouget’s famous book, but where that work is in some ways rather scholarly, this piece, from the 1898 Almanach du Père Peinard, is […]
Proudhon Library
Another bit on “socialism,” from Proudhon’s “The Federative Principle”
Just another of those interesting definitions of “socialism,” from the mid-19th century. I first encountered this particular passage in Proudhon’s posthumously published study of Napoleon III, but is originally from the still-untranslated second part of […]