A major mover-and-shaker in 20th-century French letters, Valery Larbaud spent much of his career translating such high-cholestorol stylists as James Joyce and Walt Whitman. He knew what he spoke of, then, when he composed An Homage to Jerome: Patron Saint of Translators. This is an elegant, lyrical valentine to a profession that Larbaud loved.


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Text: English, French (translation)