11/04/2025
We’re excited to be en route to the American Literary Translators Association conference in Tucson this week AND to be launching our new blog, THE ETHER SEA, with an interview by Clarise Reichley with Virginie Poitrasson and Michelle Noteboom on The Unlikeness of Things!
“I wanted to write an intimate and physical adventure leading to the troubling encounter of the ‘other of oneself,’ because there is something immensely unstable within us, and one of the main challenges of writing is no doubt to invent—in each book—a poetics of this instability of bodies,” says Poitrasson.
On translating, Michelle Noteboom writes: “Virginie’s book itself is underpinned by defamiliarization, as the body is constantly thrust into situations that demand—and produce—a different sort of perception, or altered perception... In my ‘day job’ as a translator in the audiovisual business, producing voiceover or subtitles, it is all about ‘massaging the French out’ of the English until no traces of it are left. Here, the English remains stained by the French (hopefully in a good way), and that may be what gives it a sense of ‘defamiliarization.’”
Read on at the link in our bio!
https://litmuspress.org/the-ether-sea-blog/
