Interesting News

Dear P Segal,

I've been reading, with pleasure and interest, the latest issue of PST, especially the article by Jerry Farber about translating Proust, as I am one of six members of a team of translators currently engaged in putting together a completely new translation of A la recherche for Penguin Books. The other translators are Lydia Davis, Mark Treharne, James Grieve, John Sturrock and Peter Collier, and we are working under the general editorship of Christopher Prendergast. The translation is scheduled for publication in 2001.

Penguin has set up a new website (www.penguin.co.uk/proust), which so far has very little on it: perhaps you should tell people on that site about yours? And anything you and your network have to offer would be very welcome.

Are the first 5 issues of PST still available anywhere? Anyway, this is just a note to establish contact.

Best wishes

Ian Patterson
King's College, Cambridge

P Segal