Career
His first books were published in the early 1980s by Éditions de la Différence [ fr ]. He then began his translations of Henry James, [1] the main part of which being The Complete Tales, in four volumes, the first appearing in 1990, and the last one in 2009.
For various publishers, he translated other Anglo-Saxon classics, such as Edith Wharton, Virginia Woolf, Gertrude Stein, Harold Pinter, Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron.
His first play adapted from Henry James, Retour à Florence, was performed in 1985 at the Théâtre du Rond-Point in Paris.
His French adaptation of The Aspern Papers was staged in 2002 by Jacques Lassalle [ fr ] and produced by the Comédie-Française.
His translation of Harold Pinter's Celebration was staged in 2005 by Roger Planchon at the Théâtre du Rond-Point in Paris.
Published in 2003, his translation of Harold Pinter's The Proust Screenplay was broadcast in 2012 by France Culture with the actors of the Comédie-Française.
He wrote the libretto of La Bête dans la jungle based on Henry James' 1903 novella The Beast in the Jungle , an opera by French composer Arnaud Petit, [2] premiered in 2011 at the Forum du Blanc-Mesnil, with the orchestra Les Siècles conducted by François-Xavier Roth.
In 2015, he worked with film director Julien Landais [3] on a script in English based on his scenic adaptation of Les Papiers d'Aspern.
The film, The Aspern Papers , was shot in Venice in July 2017, starring Vanessa Redgrave, Joely Richardson and Jonathan Rhys-Meyers. [4]
An expanded version of La Bête dans la jungle premiered in April 2023 at the Cologne Opera in a staging by Frederic Wake-Walker, with Emily Hindrichs and Miljenko Turk as May Bartram and John Marcher, and the Gürzenich Orchester conducted by François-Xavier Roth. [5]
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