Dr Christopher Rollason is a British national living in France. He graduated with First Class Honours in English literature from Trinity College, Cambridge (England) in 1975, and obtained his Ph.D. from York University (England) in 1988, with a dissertation on Edgar Allan Poe. For eight years up to 1987 he was a member of the […]
Noticias
Capítulo 10 (“Rocas errantes”)
Stephen camina por la calle, mira las vidrieras, y finalmente encuentra a su hermana Dilly, quien le empeñó sus libros, y que ha comprado con el magro dinero que le ha sonsacado al padre un libro de francés para escapar a París, como el hermano. Stephen, que no tiene un mal pasar, siente remordimientos por […]
Anglicisms in French and Spanish
This article examines a number of aspects of the phenomenon of anglicisms in contemporary French and Spanish. The discussion is confined to the written language (essentially in its journalistic, technical and business registers; reference is not made to the literary register); and to the French of France and the Spanish of Spain only. The issue […]
Seikilos
It’s a common belief that the earliest Western music sheet we have is that of the Seikilos epitaph, a Greek grave stele from the first century AD. It’s a drinking song (skolion), written by Seikilos for her wife Euterpe, preceded by the following text: I am an image in stone. Seikilos put me here, where […]
Don’t give up
Traducción: (por Leandro Fanzone) In this proud land we grew up strong We were wanted all along I was taught to fight, taught to win I never thought I could failNo fight left or so it seems I am a man whose dreams have all deserted I’ve changed my face, I’ve changed my name But […]
No Surprises (“Sin Sorpresas”)
Traducción: (por Nicolás Rebelo) A heart that’s full up like a landfill, a job that slowly kills you, bruises that won’t heal. You look so tired-unhappy, bring down the government, they don’t, they don’t speak for us. I’ll take a quiet life, a handshake of carbon monoxide,with no alarms and no surprises, no alarms and no […]