From A Woman in the Fray Written by Marcelle Capy Translated by Khandi Garraway After moving for thirty hours, the train stops in the concourse of the station. The travelers leave the train cars as parcels pile up in mountains on the platform, which soon offers a most colorful sight. Seated on their suitcases, on carts…Continue Reading Refugees
From Les heures longues Written by Colette Translated by Kate Palisay Saint-Malo, August 1914 War? Before the end of last month, this was only a word, enormous, spelled out by the headlines of newspapers in the daze of the summer. War? Maybe, yes, a long way away, on the other side of the earth,…Continue Reading The News
Written by Colette Translated by Kara Dobrolsky March 1915 “The bombing began immediately and without prior warning. One quarter, left unscathed, was pillaged and burned with oil. An old woman was looking after her paralytic husband there; they chased her with the butts of their rifles and set the bed of the ill man on…Continue Reading The Same Ones
Two short pieces from A Woman’s Voice in the Fray Written by Marcelle Capy Translated by Clay Somes A Country of Death Why these macabre scenes that depict with satisfaction certain writers who have had the privilege of roaming, curious, the battlefield, after the action? Why pester the dead until they rest? Why this joy before their…Continue Reading A Country of Death & The Death of a Precursor: Léon Bonneff