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"""Cleopatra"" from Portraits of Women by Philippe Sollers, translated by Armine Kotin Mortimer"

Mortimer, Armine Kotin; Sollers, Philippe

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Title
"""Cleopatra"" from Portraits of Women by Philippe Sollers, translated by Armine Kotin Mortimer"
Author(s)
  • Mortimer, Armine Kotin
  • Sollers, Philippe
Issue Date
2016-01-26
Keyword(s)
  • Sollers
  • Translation
  • Cleopatra
  • Shakespeare
  • French
  • Nonfiction
Abstract
Philippe Sollers, a notoriously woman-oriented novelist, addresses the relations between the sexes as concerns real women in Portraits de femmes, published by Flammarion in 2013. “Cleopatra” is my translation of the twentieth chapter. Sollers’s book engages in a gentle, good-humored polemic, expressing his delight and tranquil admiration for what women have brought him and especially for how the exceptional women he portrays stand out as admirable human beings. Thus his intensely personal assumption of Cleopatra, via Shakespeare, but the chapter conflates the Egyptian queen with his mistress of more than fifty years, Dominique Rolin, who as she faced death in 2012 bid her lover “Goodbye, little darling!”
Publisher
3:AM Magazine
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/91662
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Copyright Editions Flammarion 2013; translation copyright Armine Kotin Mortimer

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