Chapters 4 and 5 are here! Chapter 5 is probably my favorite chapter from Part 1.https://williammckaytranslations.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-seven-colors-by-robert-brasillach_11.htmlYou can access the other chapters from the main page of my bloghttps://williammckaytranslations.blogspot.com/There's just two more chapters left in Part 1, so you guys will have the entirety of the story section available to read by the end of next week!
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>>25080951Thanks for the support. I'll pull a Waldun and say that all that matters is if at least one person reads my translation and enjoys it.>>25080995??
Your threads inspired me to finally take up Brasillach after I'm done with the current tome of Proust (I'm doing one book of La Recherche, one unrelated novel; otherwise, I think I would get burned out pretty quickly; my French is evidently still lacking, and although I understand most of what I'm reading, there are some passages which I find quite demanding).In the meantime, I've read through his reportage from Katyń (I come from Poland, so the issue is of some interest to me) and was moved by his visceral description of excavations. He also seems to hold Polish soldiers in high esteem - while describing our then government as incompetent megalomaniacs, fair enough - which is interesting, given he published his text in a German-adjacent newspaper.Only tangentially related, but skimming through Je suis partout makes apparent how much we've regressed in the department of journalism and how much intellectual potential France lost during épuration.It seems like a good place to ask if some Anon has access to Comme le temps passe... in an epub format. Annas only has it in pdf, which is obviously miserable for novels. Amazon has it available for a relatively low price, but I wanted to make sure before I decide to use my hard-earned money (and put myself on the list for buying extremist material).
>>25081081Comme le temps passe... has nothing to do with Fascism at all. It's literally a romance that heavily interweaves early film history into the narrative, and then goes on to document the effects of The Great War on the Greatest Generation. It's Brasillach's greatest novel. The opening `Garden of Paradise' section is absolute kino. It's literally just a novel that tries to capture the zeitgeist of growing up pre-WWI and then living in its aftermath. I bought it off Abebooks and nothing bad has happened to me. I may be on a list, who knows, but I'm not a radical extremist activist. I'm just a guy who reads novels.
>>25081081I need to figure out how to either convert a pdf into an epub, or how to make LaTeX compile an epub. Because once I have the whole text translated, I'd like to put out an epub for obvious reasons.
>>25081114I also want to add that Livre de Poche publishes Comme le temps passe... So the novel isn't exactly controversial to publish or read. I don't know if they still publish it, but Livre de Poche editions of the novel are easily available online.
>>25081081>how much intellectual potential France lost during épuration.i mean ... he didn't have to collaborate
>>25081126De Gaulle only signed off an Brasillach's execution because Brasillach wrote an article in Je Suis Partout that didn't portray one of De Gaulle's personal friends in a favorable light. Many LEFT-WING French intellectuals signed a petition to stay Brasillach's execution. The guy wasn't exactly hated by his ideological contemporaries, they in fact enjoyed his writing and his talent. I mean, look at the names who were for saving Brasillach>Dans les jours qui suivent, à l'initiative de Jean Anouilh, Marcel Aymé et François Mauriac[43], une pétition d'artistes et d'intellectuels renommés, parmi lesquels Paul Valéry, Paul Claudel, Daniel-Rops, Albert Camus, Jean Paulhan, Roland Dorgelès, Jean Cocteau, Colette, Arthur Honegger, Maurice de Vlaminck, André Barsacq, Jean-Louis Barrault, Thierry Maulnier, etc.And modern day progressives want to tell you you aren't allowed to read his books or that Brasillach as a NOVELIST is taboo. It's Orwellian.
>>25081132i own plenty of books from Brasillach, Drieu, Rebatet, Paul Morand, i dont care about the modern witch hunt for collaborationist writers or general wrongthink. but Brasillach was the chief editor of Je suis partout, that's just too much. he was a turncoat and had to get culled. of course his little writer friends didn't want him to get executed, but honestly who cares?
>>25081114The part about "the list" was more of a tongue in cheek observation than a real concern, I'll probably end up buying it either way.It's widely speculative, but I think that if anyone really were to be prosecuted for "dangerous books", the "it has nothing to do with fascism" argument wouldn't fly with law enforcement anywhere in Europe. That's putting too much faith in bureaucrats and apparatchiks, who are notoriously incapable of looking at literature through a lense other than a political one. Not that it's a recent issue - you could find what happened to A.W. Schlegel during the end of his stay in Switzerland interesting in that regard.>heavily interweaves early film history into the narrativeGood to know, because I'm heavily interested in cinema as well. It's impressive how much Brasillach managed to do in barely 35 years - novels, journalism, classical and theatrical scholarship, pioneering works in film criticism... What the fuck have I been doing with my time. I'll never catch up at this point.>>25081126"If you do what you consider best for your country in an aftermath of a lost conflict and during a particularly turbulent period on a continent you're... le evil". Thanks, brilliant insight.
>>25081185>best for your countrywhich in his case, backing up the invading force in exchange of a nice spot in the newspaper. alright
>>25081207Honestly, once, or rather IF, you read the Journal section of Les Sept Couleurs, you'll see that Brasillach really believed in Fascism as the future for Europe as a whole. He seemed to find it transformative as an ideology, which would create a close-knit, strong, and vigorous nation. He found it the best solution to revive a decadent, dying Europe. It's not hard to see why, with a belief as strong as that, he would collaborate with a Fascist country which had seized control of his. He believed in a Fascist France as a means of providing prosperity to his nation. It would be kind of like if China invaded California and seized control, and then you had all the progressives and communist Americans in California aiding and supporting the communist takeover in the hopes of establishing an independent and communist United States. I honestly can't blame those people since they truly believe communism is the best way to fix America and make it a strong nation.
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>>25081278>you'll see that Brasillach really believed in Fascism as the future for Europe as a whole. He seemed to find it transformative as an ideology, which would create a close-knit, strong, and vigorous nation. He found it the best solution to revive a decadent, dying Europe. It's not hard to see why, with a belief as strong as that, he would collaborate with a Fascist country which had seized control of his.ive been hearing this spiel for more than a decade you little baboon. this is where your hours tucked away in your bedroom filibustering about political theories and variables turns you into an out of touch impotent day dreamer. maybe you're genetically predisposed to servitude but keep it to yourself. there's no reason good enough to justify this fifth columnist stand and glorifying becoming a vassal state>I honestly can't blame those people since they truly believe communism is the best way to fix America and make it a strong nation.i know you cant blame them, you lack the constitution to appreciate independance and self determination. which is why youre propping up brasillach out of all the french authors active during the 1930s
>>25082890For some reason you're assuming I agree with Brasillach politically. I don't. Unlike your artless, soulless self, I am able to separate the art from the artist. Brasillach wrote great novels. Therefore, I translate. I'm not on a side. I don't put people in a box, like your small self. While you and your ilk proclaim to see the world with nuance, I actually do.
>>25082920pipe down you run of the mill nebbish 4chan dilettante. youre a mass produced caricature
