../ Your Non-Denominational Source for The Weird Mon, 13 May 2013 05:02:48 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 ../#comment-9461 Mon, 13 May 2013 05:02:48 +0000 ../../../../#comment-9461 […] first is by Marcel Béalu, whom I’ve discussed before in the context of a longer story, “The Water Spider,” though he’s best known for his short-shorts. This one, “Le Bocal,” was first published in the […]

]]> ../#comment-4976 Sun, 06 Jan 2013 20:52:11 +0000 ../../../../#comment-4976 […] classic story “The Water Spider.” The Unstuck site is featuring an excerpt, and over at Weird Fiction Review, I provide some context and history for the tale, in the first of two planned posts on the […]

]]> ../#comment-4390 Tue, 11 Dec 2012 23:32:17 +0000 ../../../../#comment-4390 Thanks for reading! My translation of “The Water Spider” will be available in the forthcoming issue of Unstuck, due to be released this Saturday 12/15. There’s a link to their site at the top of this article. Sorry I didn’t make this clear.
In 1979, Oasis Books (London) put out chapbook of “The Water Spider” translated by Michael Bullock. Those are the only two English versions I know of; used French versions of various editions can be found for not thaaat much online.
Just for the record, I didn’t consult the Bullock version while translating, though I definitely would have compared the two if I’d been able to get a hold of his earlier. It’s not easy to find, but contact me through my site for some tips.
There are links in the article above to my other Bealu translations, a total of eight short-shorts in 3 online magazines: Anomalous, Joyland, and The Cafe Irreal. Bullock also translated a chapbook of Bealu short-shorts, also for Oasis, called Subterranean Traveller. I can’t tell if Oasis is still around, but I doubt it.

]]> ../#comment-4386 Tue, 11 Dec 2012 20:18:24 +0000 ../../../../#comment-4386 Yeah where can we read the story? Not much oline even on French sites

]]> ../#comment-4382 Tue, 11 Dec 2012 18:22:03 +0000 ../../../../#comment-4382 This is a great and insightful article… now I must track down an English translation of The Water Spider, and read it.

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