New translation commission…
If Cyril Dewitt’s first novel is anything to go by, it’s safe to say the rumours of Grace Kelly’s death are greatly exaggerated…
As the journal of our narrator, part-time serial killer and self-confessed braggart, Clément Justeclaimant (what were his parents thinking?!) unfolds, we learn that he’s a top-drawer Paris perfumer by day, and recreational serial killer whenever he’s at leisure to fully indulge his exasperation with his clients. Without wishing to risk any spoilers, I can say that the cameo appearances of Clément’s beautiful accomplice, Grace Kelly (deceased) and her charming assistant, Tippi Hedren, more than give Hollywood a run for its money. But then, to be fair, Mr Hitchcock didn’t have email.
Dewitt gives us a highly original and provocative novel which seamlessly weaves the burlesque and the horrifying, and wraps them up in a shiny baroque bow. Needless to say, I was delighted to learn I’d been selected to undertake the first English translation of his work.
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More as it happens…
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- Now *this* is what I call eye-candy…
- Grace Kelly Style Icon at the V&A…
- Joshua Bell busking out a little Bach for Maxidus…
- New translation commission…
- The Fiddle of Fiddles…
- On never being more than 6′ from a Nina Simone album…
- The day the music crashed out a 3rd storey window
- In our house, Saturday tends to rhyme with baking
- Five stars for ‘The Believers’ by Zoe Heller
- You are always close…
- If you’re only going to subscribe to one new blog this week…
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- Why I’ll be throwing my new cello out the window…
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- Haggis is a meal, for a’ that
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[...] Overall, I don’t regret going. After all, it was a day out at the V&A. But if you are thinking of going, I’m sure you’ll get a lot more out of it if you do your Grace Kelly homework beforehand. Which, strangely enough, although I didn’t know it when I set off for the V&A, is something I will now be doing anyway, as I translate Cyril Albertucci’s Les Pensées plutoniennes (Alors Je Tue). [...]