Claude Royet-Journoud
I dropped by Claude's apartment early in the afternoon
on Rue de l’Aqueduc
while I was in Paris for my Double Change reading. We talked through the day, just until I had to leave for Lyon.
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- "‘Le drap maternel’ ou la restitution” (5:06): MP3
- Charles Bernstein reads his translation, “‘The Maternal Drape' or Restitution” (7:22): MP3, pdf of text
- “Descriptive Method,” part 2; Bernstein reads alternating sections of Keith Waldrop’s translation (9:03): MP3
- La Notion d'Obstacle (Gallimard, 1978) (31:38): MP3
Keith Waldrop reads from his translation, The Notion of Obstacle (Windsor: Awede Press, 1978)
Note: Royet-Journoud placed a ticking clock on the podium, which can be heard in the recording.
- from Les Objets Contiennent l'Infini (Gallimard, 1983), Book 3 (prose section) (2:54): MP3
Reading at the Centre international de poésie Marseille, June 1990
Id est (extraits 1 à 4) (4:09): MP3
Documentary with Edmond Jabés and Lars Fredrikson (1974)
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