Re: Spoon Home Page

Foucault spoke good english and had many interviews in english ( in
California). The cassettes are avalable in Paris. France for people to
llisten to. May be here at Berkeley too.

Atefeh


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>Dear Hector,
> On the matter of translation that you raised, I have to offer
>simply that the text is of an interview. F's language abilities were,
>like most French people of his generation, notoriously bad. I would be
>very shocked to learn that the interview was given in any language other
>than his native Gaulois. Therefore, the text that I posted should be
>"most authentic" (i.e. in keeping with the man's own words) even if the
>first publication of it was in Italien. That publication was merely
>itself a translation.
> Does this help you?
>
>hasta luego,
>derrick
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