Video from The Salt Smugglers launch party
10/26/2009This September, Richard Sieburth, already a translator of many Archipelago books, spoke at a launch part for his newest translation, The Salt Smugglers by Gérard de Nerval, at Idlewild Books in Manhattan. This ten-minute video includes an introduction, a reading, and a discussion of the political climate in 1850s France that spawned this wildly unique book.
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