Article: Introductory remarks.(Valery Larbaud, 'Sous l'invocation du Saint Jerome,' essays on translation)

Ashy, solitary man, Valery Larbaud was born into a wealthy bourgeois family from Vichy (Larbaud's father had made his fortune selling bottled water). He was a sickly child but traveled widely and often with his mother throughout Europe, frequently for reasons of health. As an adult, this worldly provincial preferred country villages to the literary capitals of Europe and it is likely that his affection for the foreign provided him with the necessary appreciation of difference that was to stand him in good stead as a translator. A perennial outsider--Larbaud had many friends but few intimates--his isolation from the mainstream gave him the ability to slip between cultures ...

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