Anatomy of a Sentence

Anatomy of a Sentence: Yves Ravey's Alerte

Anatomy of a Sentence: Yves Ravey's Alerte

Take a deep breath. Now read.

Translator Phoebe Weston-Evans discusses a breathless, surreal sentence from Yves Ravey's Alerte. 

"There’s something about the unbridled energy of its form that blurs the notions of past and present and arranges them, briefly, uncomfortably, on the same plane."  —Phoebe Weston-Evans

Anatomy of a Sentence: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s Wind, Sand and Stars

Anatomy of a Sentence: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s Wind, Sand and Stars

“The earth teaches us more about ourselves than all the books in the world, because it is resistant to us.” —Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Daniel Stephensen explores this revelatory sentence that opens Wind, Sand and Stars, an integral phrase missing from some translations. 

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