[ilds] Guy de Maupassant

[Marc Piel]

My translation is surely not as good as the original.

May I suggest a modification to what you wrote? 
"The writer is...."  Should it not be "The good 
writer is..."
Maupassant is one of my favourite french authors...
BR
Marc

Denise Tart & David Green a écrit :
> Marc
>  
> thank you for your translation from Guy de Maupassant. Only a Frenchman 
> could have a name like that. To my mind that passage just about sums it 
> up. The writer as theif, cobbler, storeman, magician; all those and 
> more. Reality diguised as fiction tranlated into another reality, the 
> writers, that we accept and go along with. Durrell does this very well 
> and maintains another worldliness that is deeply intoxicating.
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> DG
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