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Alexis Pernsteiner

Contributor

Alexis Pernsteiner

Alexis Pernsteiner is a literary and academic translator. Recent publications include Hotelles by Emma Mars (an erotic novel set in Paris, the City of Love) and The Invention of Race: Popular and Scientific Representations (edited by Nicolas Bancel, Thomas David, and Dominic Thomas).

Articles by Alexis Pernsteiner

On the Fourth Day

By Koulsy Lamko

Slowly but surely, exile erases us from the memory of our land.

Translated from French by Alexis Pernsteiner

Multilingual

In All Magnitude

I abhor humanitarianism.

Translated from French by Antoine Bargel & Alexis Pernsteiner

Multilingual

Traces of Our Fathers

By Alain Gordon Gentil

The prairies of Brittany have sugarcane in their memory.

Translated from French by Alexis Pernsteiner & Antoine Bargel

Isle Say Blood

By Michel Ducasse

always the sea always / shameful the shameful ocean / bodies battered before touching the shore

Translated from French by Alexis Pernsteiner & Antoine Bargel

Multilingual

The Sea Horses’ Ball

By Boris Gamaleya

The plane crashes . . . on the island of troubling roosters.

Translated from French by Alexis Pernsteiner & Antoine Bargel

Famine

By Jean-Luc Raharimanana

The gecko got it right

Translated from French by Antoine Bargel & Alexis Pernsteiner

Multilingual

Kratos

By Jean-Luc Raharimanana

Now chant. / Dêmos / Kratos

Translated from French by Alexis Pernsteiner & Antoine Bargel

Multilingual