Phoebe Weston-Evans

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

Tête-à-Tête with Phoebe Weston-Evans (Translation Interview No. 1)

Tête-à-Tête with Phoebe Weston-Evans (Translation Interview No. 1)

"It was a way for me to get as close to the writing as I could, to get in between every word, every letter, to inhabit the text in the most complete way. It was like moving inside it, or even ingesting it, in order to retell it in a different language."   Phoebe Weston-Evans