Papers, ca. 1933-2009.

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Papers, ca. 1933-2009.

Consists of the correspondence and papers of translator Barbara Wright relating to her English translations of French authors.

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New Directions Publishing Corp.

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James Laughlin (1914-1997) began his publishing career as the literary editor of New Democracy, a magazine devoted to the economic theory Social Credit. Here Laughlin published Modern writers such as Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, and William Carlos Williams in a section of the magazine entitled "New Directions." In 1936, while in his Junior year at Harvard University, Laughlin gathered the best of these pieces and put them together in the first annual anthology, New Directions in Prose and Poetry....

Pinget, Robert

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Queneau, Raymond, 1903-1976

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Queneau (1903-1973), a French writer and editor, worked with the Surrealists as a young man before he founded "Oulipo" (Ouvroir de Littérature potentielle). As an editor at Gallimard publishers, he was influential in the publication and support of avant-garde movements and their proponents. Queneau began publishing Isou in the late 1940s and was supportive of him and his efforts to establish Lettrism. From the description of Lettrism papers, 1946-1965. (Getty Research Institute). Wo...

Calder & Boyars.

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Ionesco, Eugene 1912-

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Romanian and French author, playwright, and critic, Eugène Ionesco (1909-1994), was one of the foremost playwrights of the Theatre of the Absurd. From the description of Letters, photographs, and ephemera, 1969-2001. (Indiana University). WorldCat record id: 436464327 Eugene Ionesco, playwright. Tina Howe, translator. From the description of The lesson : typescript, 2004. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 79468111 From the description of Th...

Albert-Birot, Pierre

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Calder, John, 1927-

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Epithet: publisher British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001026.0x00005f ...

Wright, Barbara, 1915-2009

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Barbara Wright (1915-2009) is considered one of the premier English translators of modern French literature. An Englishwoman, born in 1915, Wright studied music in Paris in the years before World War II. She began her career as an art and literary critic before devoting her time to translation. She specialized in "poetic prose" and drama, especially French surrealist and existential writing, but she translated works in several genres including women's literature, historical fiction, and fantasy....

Doubleday and Company, inc.

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Biographical Note 1906, Feb. 25 Born, Madison, N.J. 1928 A.B., Willamette University,Salem, Oreg. 1930 Clerk, Doubleday & Co.'s Pennsylvania Station bookstore, New York, N.Y. 1934 ...

Fitzgerald, Russell

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Hamburger, Jean

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Red Dust (Firm)

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Created in 1961, Red Dust is dedicated to publishing work thought to be unpublishable because of length, form or content, according to founder, publisher and author Joanna Gunderson. In 1963, Red Dust released its first books: Mathis at Colmar, by Linda Nochlin; and Sights, by Anna Holmes. Over the years Red Dust has published many notable works of international fiction and poetry, including those by French avant-garde writer Robert Pinget, French poet and essayist Francis Ponge, Peruvian poet A...

Themerson, Stefan

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John Calder Publishers

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TOURNIER, MICHEL.

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Sarraute, Nathalie

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Faber and Faber.

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