Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Portraits; Barbara, a portrait sketch; A Tribute to Barbara Wright; Working with Barbara Wright; Aspects of Barbara Wright's Literary Translations; Writing Erudite Delirium; UBU ROI: a brilliant debut; Grabinoulor Has Fun with Language and Makes New Friends: The First Book of Grabinoulor and beyond; The Artist on her Trapeze: Barbara Wright's 99 variations on a theme by Raymond Queneau; Translating Beckett before Beckett: the translation of Eleutheria; Barbara Wright translates Pinget's Le Chrysanthème: which voice in English?
Nathalie Sarraute and the Strangeness of LanguageBarbara Wright Archives; Locating Barbara Wright's archive sources; The Barbara Wright Archive at the Lilly Library, Indiana University Bloomington: A Personal Memoir; Filmscript; Robert Pinget's 15 Rue des Lilas; Synopsis; Note; Presentation; Filmscript; Bibliography: Barbara Wright's principal translations; Barbara Wright: Timeline; Photographs; Appraisals, reviews; Index; Contributors; Copyright.
Summary
This wonderful collection of texts by and about Barbara Wright-"the most brilliant, conscientious and original translator of 20th century French literature"--Begins the work of properly commemorating a figure toward whom all of English letters owes an unpayable debt.