{"id":9396,"date":"2017-07-25T12:34:32","date_gmt":"2017-07-25T01:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soundslikewish.com\/?p=9396"},"modified":"2018-06-20T10:54:28","modified_gmt":"2018-06-20T00:54:28","slug":"the-mask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=9396","title":{"rendered":"The Mask"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My translation of Claudine Jacques&#8217; short story <em>Le Masque<\/em> has just been published by Volkeno Books, Vanuatu, in a bilingual edition. Hold the book one way to read the original French story, then flip it over to read it in English.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-9396 gallery-columns-4 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?attachment_id=9397'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/dsc09241-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?attachment_id=9398'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/dsc09242-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?attachment_id=9399'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/dsc09243-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?attachment_id=9404'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/dsc09245-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>The setting is a <em>fare ofe<\/em>, a bamboo house in New Caledonian bushland. The protagonist sees it as exotic and inspirational, just the impetus she needs to begin her writing career. She talks to a tribal mask left behind by a previous tenant, and it responds&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Available to order at noiraublanc.fr, here: http:\/\/noiraublanc.fr\/index.php?route=product\/category&amp;path=62<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*****<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My translation of Claudine Jacques&#8217; short story Le Masque has just been published by Volkeno Books, Vanuatu, in a bilingual edition. Hold the book one way to read the original French story, then flip it over to read it in English. The setting is a fare ofe, a bamboo house in New Caledonian bushland. The &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=9396\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Mask&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9415,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,20],"tags":[858,156,1041,716,2,269,463,7,8,21,1042,3,1043,270],"class_list":["post-9396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-french-literature-and-translation","category-my-photos","tag-claudine-jacques","tag-french-literature","tag-le-masque-par-claudine-jacques","tag-literary-translation","tag-literature","tag-new-caledonian-literature","tag-novels","tag-photography","tag-photos-2","tag-postaday","tag-the-mask-by-claudine-jacques","tag-translation","tag-volkeno-books-vanuatu","tag-writing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9396"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10914,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9396\/revisions\/10914"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}