MEMBER BLOG TAG: a. m. homes
| Wednesday, April 28, 2010 5:44PM | | | | Philippe Djian and A. M. Homes | Tags: PEN World Voices, Philippe Djian, A. M. Homes, interpreting, Maison Française
| | | | So it's in a little room at the Maison Française, off Washington Square, well-attended. well-lit, video-recorded, photographed, remembered perhaps, blogged about certainly.
Djian is the guy in the black leather jacket with the three-day beard. The woman on his arm, it develops, is his interpreter. With them is A.M. Homes who will moderate/interview/jolly things along.
Not much is happening. Clearly we have a provocateur at the dais, but the fur is refusing to fly. The mechanics of the session are interesting. First A. M. Homes asks a question, but invariably someone starts to talk before she has made her point. The interpreter. She's translating into Philippe Djian's ear. Then Djian answers, elaborates, wings off on a tangential tack, loops back around, falls silent. Now it's the interpreter's... | | | | | |
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