Sunday 20 September
17:00 - 17:30
with
Presentations
Through a series of poems, literary translators Marie Jadot and Franco Paris reflect on their translation of the “guilty landscape” by Dutch author and artist Armando (born Herman Dirk van Dodeweerd).
What is it like to collaborate on a translation when one translates into French and the other into Italian?
Trilingual reading in Dutch, French, and Italian.
Conversation in Dutch and French.
Het was een lange straat,
gekleed voor een ontmoeting,
een plant stond aan de ingang
en wist geen antwoord.
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C’était une longue rue,
habillée pour une rencontre,
à l’entrée une plante
ne savait que répondre.
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Era una strada lunga,
vestita per un incontro,
all’ingresso una pianta
non aveva una risposta.
Extrait de Stemmen/Voix/Voci (Raffaelli Editore, 2024, édition trilingue)
A poet and prose writer, painter and draftsman, sculptor, director, and actor, Armando (1929–2018) was still just a little boy when he left Amsterdam for Amersfoort and played his first notes on the violin. He grew up on the edge of an idyllic forest where the Polizeiliches Durchgangslager Amersfoort was established during World War II. The traumatic events of his youth would shape the thematic threads of his work. They are particularly evident in the “guilty landscape” that repeatedly emerged, both on canvas and on paper.
Our speakers
Marie Jadot
