French Archives - DJ Wez G

July 16, 2023 wezg

Christine and The Queens – Tilted

I must confess: it was the evil Flapsandwich who put me onto this amazing French Band, Christine and The Queens, a few years ago. I was chuffed when they turned up on the BBC Glastonbury 2023 television footage. I was

July 15, 2023 wezg

Neneh Cherry & Youssou N’Dour – 7 Seconds

I mean, what can you say? Neneh Cherry? I can tell you that i stare so longingly sometimes at my original 12 inch version of Neneh Cherry – Buffalo Soldier – It usually just sits right on the outside of

June 17, 2023 wezg

Review: Queens of the Crusades – by Alison Weir

I had previously read Alison Weir’s most excellent book specifically on Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine many years ago so the author was familiar to me. I chanced upon this title in my local library (Caldicot) and thought I’d give it

May 13, 2023 wezg

Review: Adventure Everywhere – Pablo Picasso’s Paris Nightlife – by Dave Haslam

I like the art of Picasso, I like the city of Paris, and I like the books of Dave Haslam. I was therefore pleased to hear of the release of this book which studies the life and art of famous

May 13, 2023 wezg

Review: Adventure Everywhere – Pablo Picasso’s Paris Nightlife – by Dave Haslam

I like the art of Picasso, I like the city of Paris, and I like the books of Dave Haslam. I was therefore pleased to hear of the release of this book which studies the life and art of famous

April 4, 2023 wezg

Review: Zlata’s Diary – A Child’s Life in Sarajevo – by Zlata Filipović

What’s a grown 45 year old male doing reading a little Bosnian girl’s diary you might ask yourself. Well, it cropped up as a recommendation in a documentary on the war in the former Yugoslavia, a subject to which I

April 4, 2023 wezg

Zlata’s Diary – A Child’s Life in Sarajevo – by Zlata Filipović

January 8, 2023 wezg

Review: The Power of Babel – A Natural History of Language – by John McWhorter

On Amazon Prime Great Courses Signature Collection I watched author John McWhorter present a course on World Language Families and this drew my attention to this literary work. McWhorter is a very intelligent polyglot and makes the study of global

October 31, 2022 wezg

Le Clic-Clac Pourri

[Literary Translation FR>EN] Ce jour-là, je n’avais pas les yeux en face de trous. Nous avions fait la fête toute la nuit, et jen’avais que deux petites heures de sommeil au compteur, dans le clic-clac pourri de ma soeur, don’t

September 1, 2022 wezg

Review: Black Russian – by Vladimir Alexandrov

This is an exciting tale from the turn of the twentieth century of an eccentric man of the world who encountered directly some of the most important global events of that era. It is a biography of Frederick Bruce Thomas

March 29, 2017 wezg

Review: Kanaval – Vodou, Politics and Revolution on the Streets of Haïti – by Leah Gordon

Leah Gordon is a former punk artist from London. She is also a photographer and this book reflects upon her experiences of Kanaval on the streets of Jacmel in Haïti between 1995 and 2010. Haïti was the first black republic

March 5, 2017 wezg

Review: Viviane Élisabeth Fauville – by Julia Deck

You are Viviane Élisabeth Fauville, a 42 year old French woman in the midst of a crisis. You have a child, a young baby, who you nurture and care for, yet your husband is in the process of leaving you.

December 17, 2014 wezg

Careers in Translation and Interpreting Event, Aston University, 17.12.14

On 17th December, with my translation (BA) colleague, Isabelle, from Cardiff University, we headed up the train tracks to the Midlands to the Careers event at Aston University. http://translation.blogs.aston.ac.uk/2014/11/18/careers-in-translation-and-interpreting/ The day’s talks promised to offer multiple perspectives on the different

December 17, 2014 wezg

Careers in Translation and Interpreting Event, Aston University, 17.12.14

November 5, 2014 wezg

Review: Postcolonial Translation: Theory and Practice – by Susan Bassnett & Harish Trevedi

Postcolonial Translation: Theory and Practice by Susan BassnettMy rating: 3 of 5 stars I’ve read a few articles on the subject of postcolonial translation and have found the area to be interesting. I thought I’d delve a little deeper into

November 5, 2014 wezg

Review: Postcolonial Translation: Theory and Practice

Postcolonial Translation: Theory and Practice by Susan Bassnett My rating: 3 of 5 stars I’ve read a few articles on the subject of postcolonial translation and have found the area to be interesting. I thought I’d delve a little deeper

November 2, 2014 wezg

Review: Sixty Million Frenchmen Can’t Be Wrong – by Jean-Benoit Nadeau

Sixty Million Frenchmen Can’t Be Wrong by Jean-Benoît NadeauMy rating: 4 of 5 stars Although this book was written over a decade ago, it is a great study of the French people that is still relevant today. It is an

November 2, 2014 wezg

Review: Sixty Million Frenchmen Can’t Be Wrong

Sixty Million Frenchmen Can’t Be Wrong by Jean-Benoît Nadeau My rating: 4 of 5 stars Although this book was written over a decade ago, it is a great study of the French people that is still relevant today. It is

November 2, 2014 wezg

Review: Sixty Million Frenchmen Can’t Be Wrong – by Jean-Benoit Nadeau

Although this book was written over a decade ago, it is a great study of the French people that is still relevant today. It is an anthropological assessment and takes a broad stance in how it assesses France. The authors

October 18, 2014 wezg

Review: On Paris

On Paris by Ernest Hemingway My rating: 4 of 5 stars This very brief work is a collection of Hemingway’s writings as a foreign correspondent for the Toronto Star. The author’s bright prose lights up what I believe to be

October 17, 2014 wezg

Review: Derrida: A Very Short Introduction – by Simon Glendinning

The philosophy of Jacques Derrida keeps cropping up on my reading in Translation Studies. I’m getting a vague idea of deconstruction but really need to tackle the works of the man himself to truly understand his philosophy. I thought I’d

October 14, 2014 wezg

Review: The Politics of Translation in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance – by Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, Luise von Flotow, Daniel Russell

I discovered this book in the Cardiff University library and thought it would provide a valuable insight into translation in history. I am interested in general history of the Renaissance and Middle Ages and found that this book helped to

October 4, 2014 wezg

Review: The Politics of Translation in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

The Politics of Translation in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance by Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski My rating: 4 of 5 stars I discovered this book in the Cardiff University library and thought it would provide a valuable insight into translation in

October 4, 2014 wezg

Review: The Politics of Translation in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance – by Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, Luise von Flotow, Daniel Russell

The Politics of Translation in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance by Renate Blumenfeld-KosinskiMy rating: 4 of 5 stars I discovered this book in the Cardiff University library and thought it would provide a valuable insight into translation in history.

September 30, 2014 wezg

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