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Wednesday, July 26, 2017

Straightening out 'Ulysses': A Translator's Notes

SAMUEL FREDERICK BROCAS, THE HA’PENNY BRIDGE, DUBLIN, 1818.

Bernard Hœpffner, who translated many English masterpieces into French, died this past May. Many obituaries in the French press highlighted Hœpffner’s involvement in an eight-person retranslation of James Joyce’s Ulysses. The Paris Review Daily presents a translated selection from his Ulysses “logbook.”

Read his notes here

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