Han Ryner Archives - The Libertarian Labyrinth

Revue Anarchiste, “Is the Anarchist Ideal Achievable?” (1930)

June 6, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

OUR SURVEYS Henri Barbusse. Han Ryner. Georges Pioch. E. Armand. Sébastien Faure. Romain Rolland. Working Translations by Shawn P. Wilbur

André Colomer, “Reflections on Nietzsche and Anarchy” (1922)

April 26, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

Anarchist Encyclopedia: Subjective, Subjectivism, Subjectivity (H. Ryner)

January 30, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

Entries from the Anarchist Encyclopedia Working Translation by Shawn P. Wilbur.

Han Ryner, “The Secret of Don Juan” (1896)

July 5, 2016 Shawn P. Wilbur

[ezcol_1half] THE SECRET OF DON JUAN All of the accounts of the interview of Don Juan and the Commander are inaccurate, and the puerile words reported by various authors were not uttered. The genuine dialogue […]

Han Ryner, “Love Victorious” (1917)

September 30, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

[ezcol_2third] Love Victorious For ten years, Pierre Vaumeil passed for mad. Previously, he had been a savant, but the death of a beloved women had, everyone in the little town maintained, destroyed his mind. Often […]

Five-sixths of a Smart Set set

September 11, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

Over at From the Libertarian Library, I’ve added translations of two more of the short stories by Han Ryner published in French in The Smart Set: “The Cheapskate” (1913) “The Paradox” (1913) “The Secret of […]

Han Ryner, Deo Optimo Maximo (1919)

September 11, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

[ezcol_2third] Deo Optimo Maximo By Han Ryner Man speaks: O God, you can not hear me, and yet I speak to you. As I sometimes talk to Helena, Don Quixote, Faust, or to some other […]

Han Ryner, “The Cheapskate” (1913)

September 10, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

[ezcol_2third] THE CHEAPSKATE By Han Ryner When on the arm of her husband, Mme. Geneviève Serre promenaded along the Esplanade, tall, supple, and slow, her face dimly lit up by a smile, the young men […]

Han Ryner, “The Paradox” (1913)

July 21, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

[ezcol_2third] THE PARADOX By Han Ryner I know a country in which the inhabitants are always clothed. Beside the woman in labor, the priest and magistrate wait and, as soon as the child appears, seizing […]

Han Ryner, “The Secret of Don Juan” (1915)

July 20, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

[I’m working my way through the translation of six shorts stories by Han Ryner, published in French in The Smart Set between July 1913 and January 1920. These initial translation are definitely rough, “working” versions, […]