Charlotte Mandell, photo by Robert Kelly

Charlotte Mandell (born 1968) is an American literary translator. She has translated many works of

poetry Poetry (derived from the Greek ''poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings i ...

fiction Fiction is any creative work, chiefly any narrative work, portraying individuals, events, or places that are imaginary, or in ways that are imaginary. Fictional portrayals are thus inconsistent with history, fact, or plausibility. In a traditi ...

and

philosophy Philosophy (from , ) is the systematized study of general and fundamental questions, such as those about existence, reason, knowledge, values, mind, and language. Such questions are often posed as problems to be studied or resolved. Some ...

from

French French (french: français(e), link=no) may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to France ** French language, which originated in France, and its various dialects and accents ** French people, a nation and ethnic group identified with Franc ...

English English usually refers to: * English language * English people English may also refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England ** English national ide ...

, including work by

Honoré de Balzac Honoré de Balzac ( , more commonly , ; born Honoré Balzac;Jean-Louis Dega, La vie prodigieuse de Bernard-François Balssa, père d'Honoré de Balzac : Aux sources historiques de La Comédie humaine, Rodez, Subervie, 1998, 665 p. 20 May 179 ...

Gustave Flaubert Gustave Flaubert ( , , ; 12 December 1821 – 8 May 1880) was a French novelist. Highly influential, he has been considered the leading exponent of literary realism in his country. According to the literary theorist Kornelije Kvas, "in Flauber ...

Jules Verne Jules Gabriel Verne (;''Longman Pronunciation Dictionary''. ; 8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the ''Voyages extraor ...

Guy de Maupassant Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant (, ; ; 5 August 1850 – 6 July 1893) was a 19th-century French author, remembered as a master of the short story form, as well as a representative of the Naturalist school, who depicted human lives, destin ...

Marcel Proust Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust (; ; 10 July 1871 – 18 November 1922) was a French novelist, critic, and essayist who wrote the monumental novel ''In Search of Lost Time'' (''À la recherche du temps perdu''; with the previous Eng ...

Maurice Blanchot Maurice Blanchot (; ; 22 September 1907 – 20 February 2003) was a French writer, philosopher and literary theorist. His work, exploring a philosophy of death alongside poetic theories of meaning and sense, bore significant influence on post- ...

, Antoine de Baecque,

Abdelwahab Meddeb Abdelwahab Meddeb ( aeb, عبد الوهاب المدب; 1946 – 5 November 2014) was a French-language writer and cultural critic, and a professor of comparative literature at the University of Paris X-Nanterre. Biography and career Meddeb wa ...

Bernard-Henri Lévy Bernard-Henri Lévy (; ; born 5 November 1948) is a French public intellectual. Often referred to in France simply as BHL, he was one of the leaders of the " Nouveaux Philosophes" (New Philosophers) movement in 1976. His opinions, political acti ...

Jean-Luc Nancy Jean-Luc Nancy ( , ; 26 July 1940 – 23 August 2021) was a French philosopher. Nancy's first book, published in 1973, was ''Le titre de la lettre'' (''The Title of the Letter'', 1992), a reading of the work of French psychoanalyst Jacques Laca ...

Mathias Énard Mathias Énard (born 1972) is a French novelist. He studied Persian and Arabic and spent long periods in the Middle East. He has lived in Barcelona for about fifteen years, interrupted in 2013 by a writing residency in Berlin. He won several awa ...

and

Jonathan Littell Jonathan Littell (born October 10, 1967) is a writer living in Barcelona. He grew up in France and the United States and is a citizen of both countries. After acquiring his bachelor's degree he worked for a humanitarian organisation for nine year ...

Life

Charlotte Mandell was born in

Hartford, Connecticut Hartford is the capital city of the U.S. state of Connecticut. It was the seat of Hartford County until Connecticut disbanded county government in 1960. It is the core city in the Greater Hartford metropolitan area. Census estimates since the ...

in 1968, the child of two academics.Interview at Maitresse
She was educated at

Boston Latin School The Boston Latin School is a public exam school in Boston, Massachusetts. It was established on April 23, 1635, making it both the oldest public school in the British America and the oldest existing school in the United States. Its curriculum f ...

, Université de Paris III, and

Bard College Bard College is a private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. The campus overlooks the Hudson River and Catskill Mountains, and is within the Hudson River Historic ...

, where she studied

French literature French literature () generally speaking, is literature written in the French language, particularly by citizens of France; it may also refer to literature written by people living in France who speak traditional languages of France other than Fr ...

and

film theory Film theory is a set of scholarly approaches within the academic discipline of film or cinema studies that began in the 1920s by questioning the formal essential attributes of motion pictures; and that now provides conceptual frameworks for und ...

. She is married to the poet Robert Kelly.

Works

Translations

, ''The Work of Fire''. Palo Alto:

Stanford University Press Stanford University Press (SUP) is the publishing house of Stanford University. It is one of the oldest academic presses in the United States and the first university press to be established on the West Coast. It was among the presses officially ...

, 1995. * Antoine de Baecque, ''The Body Politic: Corporeal Metaphor in Revolutionary France, 1770-1800''. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 1997. * Maurice Blanchot, ''Faux Pas''. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2001. * Antoine de Baecque, ''Glory and Terror: Seven Deaths under the French Revolution''. New York: Routledge, 2001. * Maurice Blanchot, ''The Book to Come''. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2003. *

Jean Genet Jean Genet (; – ) was a French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activist. In his early life he was a vagabond and petty criminal, but he later became a writer and playwright. His major works include the novels ''The Thief's ...

, ''Fragments of the Artwork''. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2003. *

, ''The Malady of Islam''. Co-translated (as Ann Reid) with Pierre Joris. New York: Basic Books, 2003. *

, ''War, Evil, and the End of History''. New York: Melville House, 2004. *

Jacques Rancière Jacques Rancière (; born 10 June 1940) is a French philosopher, Professor of Philosophy at European Graduate School in Saas-Fee and Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris VIII: Vincennes—Saint-Denis. After co-authoring '' ...

, ''The Flesh of Words''. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2004. *

, ''A Simple Heart''. New York: Melville House, 2004. *

Jean Daniel Jean Daniel Bensaid (21 July 1920 – 19 February 2020) was a French journalist and author. He was the founder and executive editor of ''Le Nouvel Observateur'' weekly now known as ''L'Obs''. Life and career Daniel was born in Blida, Algeria, a ...

, ''The Jewish Prison''. New York: Melville House, 2005. * Sima Vaisman, ''A Jewish Doctor in Auschwitz''. New York: Melville House, 2005. *

, ''The Horla''. New York: Melville House, 2005. *

Justine Lévy Justine-Juliette Lévy (born 27 September 1974) is a French book editor and author. Life and career Lévy is the eldest daughter of Isabelle Doutreluigne and French philosopher, writer, and media personality, Bernard-Henri Lévy. Her 1995 debu ...

, ''Nothing Serious''. New York: Melville House, 2005. * Bernard-Henri Lévy, American Vertigo: Traveling America in the Footsteps of Tocqueville. New York: Random House, 2006. *

, ''Listening''. New York: Fordham University Press, 2007. * Maurice Blanchot, ''A Voice from Elsewhere''. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2007. *

Benoît Duteurtre Benoît Duteurtre () (born 20 March 1960) is a French novelist and essayist. He is also a musical critic, musician, producer and host of a radio show about music. He spends his time between Paris, New York and Normandy. Early life and family Be ...

, ''The Little Girl and the Cigarette''. New York: Melville House, 2007. *

Pierre Bayard Pierre Bayard (born 1954) is currently professor of Literature at the University of Paris 8 and psychoanalyst. He is the author of many creative essays such as ''Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?'' (2002), ''How to Talk about Books You Haven't Read'' (2 ...

,''Sherlock Holmes Was Wrong: Reopening the Case of the Hound of the Baskervilles''. New York: Bloomsbury, 2008. *

Jean Paulhan Jean Paulhan (2 December 1884 – 9 October 1968) was a French writer, literary critic and publisher, director of the literary magazine ''Nouvelle Revue Française'' (NRF) from 1925 to 1940 and from 1946 to 1968. He was a member (Seat 6, 1963–68 ...

, ''On Poetry and Politics'' (co-translated with Jennifer Bajorek and Eric Trudel). Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2008. *

, ''The Lemoine Affair''. New York: Melville House, 2008. *

Peter Szendy Peter Szendy (born 1966 in Paris) is a French philosopher and musicologist. He is the David Herlihy Professor of Humanities and Comparative Literature at Brown University. His ''Écoute, une histoire de nos oreilles'' (2001, English translation ...

, ''Listen: A History of Our Ears''. New York: Fordham University Press, 2008. *

Pierre Birnbaum Pierre Birnbaum (1940, Lourdes) is a French historian and sociologist.. Bibliography *1977: ''Les Sommets de l’État. Essai sur l'élite du pouvoir en France'', Paris, Éditions du Seuil, . *1979: . *1982: ''La Logique de l’État'', Fayar ...

, ''Geography of Hope''. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2008. *

, ''The Girl with the Golden Eyes''. New York: Melville House, 2008. * Abdelwahab Meddeb, ''Tombeau of Ibn Arabi and White Traverses'', with an afterword by Jean-Luc Nancy. New York: Fordham University Press, 2009. * Jean-Luc Nancy, ''The Fall of Sleep''. New York: Fordham University Press, 2009. *

, '' The Kindly Ones''. New York: HarperCollins, 2009. *

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, ''My Spiritual Journey.'' San Francisco: HarperOne, 2010. *

, ''Zone''. Rochester: Open Letter Books, 2010. *

, ''The Castle in Transylvania''. New York: Melville House, 2010. * Jonathan Littell, ''The Invisible Enemy''. Amazon Kindle Singles series, January 2011. *

François Bizot François Bizot (born 8 February 1940) is a French anthropologist, the only Westerner to have survived imprisonment by the Khmer Rouge. Arrival in Cambodia Bizot arrived in Cambodia in 1965 to study Buddhism practised in the countryside. He t ...

, ''Facing the Torturer''. New York: Knopf, 2012. *

, ''The Fata Morgana Books''. Two Lines Press, 2013. *

, ''Street of Thieves''. Open Letter, 2014. *

, ''After Fukushima: The Equivalence of Catastrophes''. Fordham University Press, 2014. *

, ''Syrian Notebooks: Inside the Homs Uprising''. Verso, 2015. * Claude Arnaud, ''Jean Cocteau: A Life''. Yale University Press, 2016. *

, ''Coming''. Fordham University Press, 2016. *

, ''Compass''. New York: New Directions, 2017. * Roland Buti, ''The Year of the Drought''. Old Street Publishing, 2017. *

, '' Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants''. New York: New Directions, 2018.

References

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