Serge Daney in 2019

Annual round-up of the blog (it was its 15th year of existence).

The highlights were nine new translations, including a number of "forgotten" texts (i.e. which didn't feature in Daney's published books including the edition of his "complete" writings).

• I, Christine F., 13, Junkie, Prostitute…
• Daney on the Staubs: En rachâchant, Class Relations (3 texts)
• Television: Caretaking and Maintenance
• The Colour of Pomegranates
• Film criticism - Before / After
• The Two-Headed Star
• LACHRYMOTOPOGRAPHY

On the maintenance side, this blog had to republish the translations that were hosted on Steve Erickson's website. Steve was the first person to make Daney available in English online but his website disappeared abruptly after his internet provider shut it down - a reminder of the ephemeral nature of content on the internet. 

• The Critical Function
• The New Wave - A Genealogical Approach
• John Ford for Ever
• Before and After the Image
• Falling Out of Love
• Ceddo
• The Organ and the Vacuum Cleaner
• The Screen of Fantasy
• On “Salador”
• One More Bear (Dersu Uzala)
• The Aquarium (Milestones)
• Welles in Power
• Strange Bodies
• A Nothing on a Ground of Soft Music
• The Serpent's Egg
• Waiting for the Snow...
• Television and its Shadow
• From the Large to the Small Screen
• Back to the Future
• Coup de Torchon
• The Thread
• Two texts in Framework
• Stalker
• Baby Seeking Bathwater
• Implausible Truth

What about actual physical books? The talk of a book of English translations didn't sadly come through, due to funding I believe. But it does seem that Emmanuel Burdeau is continuing to work on a biography (in French). 

Fear not. I and a small contingent of online volunteers have a few more translations pencilled in for 2020. 

So here's to 2020. Happy new year.