Toad in the Hole
Geoffrey Wall: Tristan Corbière, 16 July 1998
These Jaundiced Loves: A Translation of Tristan Corbière’s ‘Les Amours Jaunes’
by Christopher Pilling.
Peterloo, 395 pp., £14.95, April 1997,1 871471 55 9 Show More
by Christopher Pilling.
Peterloo, 395 pp., £14.95, April 1997,
“... has gone unheeded, for he is back again, almost as good as new, in a parallel-text translation by Christopher Pilling. These translations are a labour of love: heroically complete, decorously literal and slightly awkward. So much depends, in Corbière, on a recklessness that expresses itself in the twisting and hammering of poetic form. Among recent ... ”
