Collected French Translations: Prose
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by Ashbery, John
*Army captain. (de Chirico)
*This scene is an exact description of an engraving by Max Klinger, on whom de Chirico wrote an admiring essay in 1920. (Trans.)
*The author here plays untranslatably on the words foi (faith), foie (liver) and fois (time). (Trans.)
*Henry James, “The Art of Fiction,” in The Art of Criticism: Henry James on the Theory and the Practice of Fiction, ed. William Veeder and Susan M. Griffin (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986), 170–72. (Eds.)