{"id":1188,"date":"2014-07-20T21:13:02","date_gmt":"2014-07-21T02:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/?p=1188"},"modified":"2014-07-20T21:13:02","modified_gmt":"2014-07-21T02:13:02","slug":"a-literary-translators-view-of-heaven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/?p=1188","title":{"rendered":"A Literary Translator&#8217;s View of Heaven"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the last page of <em>An Homage to Jerome, Patron Saint of Translators<\/em> (1946), Valery Larbaud imagines Jerome in Heaven, &#8220;surrounded by his court of glossophile, grammarian and lexicographic angels, more beautiful even than Correggio&#8217;s, and who work under his guidance on the never ending Dictionary of <em>all<\/em> the languages ever spoken or to be spoken by Adam&#8217;s children&#8221;. (I quote the translation of Jean-Paul de Chezet, The Marlboro Press, 1984.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the last page of An Homage to Jerome, Patron Saint of Translators (1946), Valery Larbaud imagines Jerome in Heaven, &#8220;surrounded by his court of glossophile, grammarian and lexicographic angels, more beautiful even than Correggio&#8217;s, and who work under his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/curculio.org\/?p=1188\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[151],"tags":[231,230,232],"class_list":["post-1188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-french","tag-st-jerome","tag-translation","tag-valery-larbaud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1189,"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188\/revisions\/1189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}