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2012 : James Joyce « tombe », comme le veut la formule, dans le domaine public. Moment idéal pour entreprendre un projet fou : traduire ce monument, jour après jour, phrase après phrase (ou presque). Deux traductions françaises sont déjà parues : une première, en 1929, signée Auguste Morel, assisté de Stuart Gilbert, Valery Larbaud et l’auteur lui-même et une seconde en 2004, menée par une équipe d’écrivains, traducteurs et universitaires sous la direction de Jacques Aubert. On n’ira pas dans cette direction mais on ne se privera pas de se référer à l’une ou à l’autre (cf. diverses notes de bas de page). Le but du jeu, dans cet exercice, serait d’opérer, par le biais de la traduction, une sorte de piratage poétique, au sens où l’entendait par exemple Kathy Acker. Que ceux qui veulent me joindre dans la bataille s’amènent : la phrase originale est dépliable en haut de chaque page et les commentaires sont faits pour ça.
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#Ulysse 4042
11 mars 2023, par Guillaume Vissac
—Cuckoo ! Cuckoo ! Cuck Mulligan clucked lewdly. O word of fear !
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#Ulysse 4041
10 mars 2023, par Guillaume Vissac
—He is, Stephen said. The boy of act one is the mature man of act five. All in all. In Cymbeline, in Othello he is bawd and cuckold. He acts and is acted on. Lover of an ideal or a perversion, like José he kills the real Carmen. His unremitting intellect is the hornmad Iago ceaselessly willing that the moor in him shall suffer.
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#Ulysse 4040
9 mars 2023, par Guillaume Vissac
Judge Eglinton summed up.
— The truth is midway, he affirmed. He is the ghost and the prince. He is all in all.
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#Ulysse 4039
8 mars 2023, par Guillaume Vissac
He laughed to free his mind from his mind’s bondage.
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#Ulysse 4038
7 mars 2023, par Guillaume Vissac
— Why ? Stephen answered himself. Because the theme of the false or the usurping or the adulterous brother or all three in one is to Shakespeare, what the poor are not, always with him. The note of banishment, banishment from the heart, banishment from home, sounds uninterruptedly from The Two Gentlemen of Verona onward till Prospero breaks his staff, buries it certain fathoms in the earth and drowns his book. It doubles itself in the middle of his life, reflects itself in another, repeats itself, protasis, epitasis, catastasis, catastrophe. It repeats itself again when he is near the grave, when his married daughter Susan, chip of the old block, is accused of adultery. But it was the original sin that darkened his understanding, weakened his will and left in him a strong inclination to evil. The words are those of my lords bishops of Maynooth. An original sin and, like original sin, committed by another in whose sin he too has sinned. It is between the lines of his last written words, it is petrified on his tombstone under which her four bones are not to be laid. Age has not withered it. Beauty and peace have not done it away. It is in infinite variety everywhere in the world he has created, in Much Ado about Nothing, twice in As You Like It, in The Tempest, in Hamlet, in Measure for Measure - and in all the other plays which I have not read.
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#Ulysse 4037
6 mars 2023, par Guillaume Vissac
That was Will’s way, John Eglinton defended. We should not now combine a Norse saga with an excerpt from a novel by George Meredith. Que voulez-vous ? Moore would say. He puts Bohemia on the seacoast and makes Ulysses quote Aristotle.
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#Ulysse 4036
5 mars 2023, par Guillaume Vissac
—You will say those names were already in the chronicles from which he took the stuff of his plays. Why did he take them rather than others ? Richard, a whoreson crookback, misbegotten, makes love to a widowed Ann (what’s in a name ?), woos and wins her, a whoreson merry widow. Richard the conqueror, third brother, came after William the conquered. The other four acts of that play hang limply from that first. Of all his kings Richard is the only king unshielded by Shakespeare’s reverence, the angel of the world. Why is the underplot of King Lear in which Edmund figures lifted out of Sidney’s Arcadia and spatchcocked on to a Celtic legend older than history ?
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#Ulysse 4035
4 mars 2023, par Guillaume Vissac
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#Ulysse 4034
3 mars 2023, par Guillaume Vissac
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#Ulysse 4033
2 mars 2023, par Guillaume Vissac
I am tired of my voice, the voice of Esau.