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Jules and Jim. In France, love makes the world go triangular. Director Francois Truffaut (The 400 Blows) translates the ways of two men with a maid into a film that is charming, sick, hilarious, depressing, wise and, most of the time, quite wonderful.
What is demonstrated in fascinating incident and mordant detail as the Vera rolls to Bremerhaven is that they are pitifully identical: they are human, and thus, the author translates, they are pathetic, contemptible fools.
The Odyssey. Robert Fitzgerald translates into the crisp, demotic argot of today the tale of wily Odysseus.
The Odyssey. Robert Fitzgerald translates into the crisp, demotic argot of today the tale of wily Odysseus.
The Odyssey. Robert Fitzgerald translates into the crisp, demotic argot of today, the tale of wily Odysseus.