Serge Daney in 2013

It's time for the annual round up of English translations of Serge Daney. This blog spotted thirteen new translations, some here, several elsewhere. The highlight of the year was the co-translation with Otie Wheeler of Daney's introductory texts to the chapters of his first book, La rampe, published as a series in the summer. I strongly recommend you to read them if you haven't done so already. I was surprised to see that over time, most of La rampe has been translated.

A most satisfying part for me was the sheer number of people who gave their time and effort to translate or help translate Daney. What, at times, has felt like a solitary endeavour has become a collaborative effort. So thank you to Adrian Martin, Ted Fendt, Stoffel Debuysere, Craig Keller and Otie Wheeler. Let's keep it up in 2014.

Elsewhere:

• Le pont du nord, Jacques Rivette (in the booklet accompanying the Eureka Masters of Cinema DVD and Blu-Ray)
• Death of the world's oldest filmmaker, Allan Dwan (1885-1981) (on Ted Fendt's blog)
• New Grammar (two texts in the Amazon Kindle edition of the Made in USA magazine published by the Bernadette Corporation).
• In the midst of the end of the world, Antonio Reis' Ana (at the Diagonal Thought blog)

On this blog:

• The theatre of entrances (John Ford, Seven women)
• Paris, Texas, Wim Wenders
• A chatty Minnelli movie (Home From the Hill)
• Mannerism
• La rampe
• Guy de Mautpassant
• Only the cinema
• Response to a questionnaire on film criticism
• Toward screenisation 

In terms of readership, Google Analytics tell me that there were 5,500 unique visitors to the blog (a thousand more than in 2012). However, when I filter down this meaningless number (it counts web crawling robots) to the visitors who stayed more than a minute, we're talking about 900 people (the same as last year, you loyal readers!)

Google also tells me that, although visitors came from over a hundred countries, only 40% of you were from English-speaking ones, that most of you are under 34 years old and 54% are male, and that the text on Mannerism seems to have been the most popular.

So here's to 2014. New texts are already being prepared. Happy New Year!

Laurent