Nathan Brown
@redwithoutwhy
Followers
2K
Following
2K
Media
104
Statuses
398
Prof @Concordia / Author of Rationalist Empiricism; The Limits of Fabrication; Baudelaire's Shadow / Translator of The Flowers of Evil @VersoBooks
Montreal
Joined September 2023
It’s release day for my translation of Baudelaire’s The Flowers of Evil. Feeling grateful to everyone who supported this project and to @VersoBooks for publishing such a beautiful edition.
13
81
625
I translated Baudelaire’s Recueillement for Lapham’s Quarterly:.
1
2
9
PSA: in the penultimate line of Hölderlin's Der Ister, "jener" means "yonder".
0
0
5
“The elements of language explicate one another. They speak for that which still remains to be said in that which is said; they speak as philological additions to one another. Language is archiphilology.”.- Werner Hamacher
0
1
12
A sort of chiasmus with the Aaron Benanav Op-Ed in the NYT. Perhaps he’ll become a columnist, Krugman 2.0.
0
0
3
26 pages of the new NLR devoted to interviewing Ross Douthat. End of the line.
2
2
14
RT @pallakschh: was toying with the idea of translating the rest of Hölderlin's still-untranslated letters one day, but glad to see someone….
0
9
0
Read Wordsworth's "The Ruined Cottage" and then Shelley's "Mont Blanc" yesterday for the first time in about 25 years. Need to write a book on Romantic grammar.
1
4
26
Celebrating the new Verso edition of the Flowers of Evil tonight at the Francis Kite Club (no cover): David Grubbs plays solo guitar, I read from the translation, and Lara Allen spins a special Fleurs du mal DJ set. Hope to see you if you're in NYC!
1
3
20
RT @LAReviewofBooks: "I came to grasp the tenderness and generosity of these poems in a way I hadn't before, the kindness traversing them a….
0
3
0
RT @blackfaurest: Nathan Brown's superb new translation of "The Flowers of Evil" (as well as its companion, "Baudelaire's Shadow") is a maj….
0
3
0
RT @DannyDrinksWine: On this day, 50 years ago, Michelangelo Antonioni's "The Passenger" (1975) was released in Italy. .
0
338
0
Worked on translating Robert Desnos's "Le Dernier Poème" for awhile, and then it dawned on me.
0
0
6
San Francisco launch of my translation of The Flowers of Evil at Adobe Books, Sunday February 23, 7pm @VersoBooks @AdobeBookShop
0
3
31
RT @AngledRoad: Nathan Brown's 2022 Baudelaire book is a stone-cold masterpiece - a thrilling read from beginning to end, an absolute neces….
0
3
0
There comes a moment in every life when you realize Hölderlin’s essay on “Becoming in Dissolution” is the Science of Logic in miniature.
0
0
18