{"id":81785,"date":"2015-01-19T09:31:41","date_gmt":"2015-01-19T14:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=81785"},"modified":"2015-01-19T09:55:25","modified_gmt":"2015-01-19T14:55:25","slug":"chaucers-bachelor-pad-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/19\/chaucers-bachelor-pad-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Chaucer\u2019s Bachelor Pad, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_81786\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/portrait_of_chaucer_-_portrait_and_life_of_chaucer_16th_c_f.1_-_bl_add_ms_5141.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-81786\" class=\"wp-image-81786\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/portrait_of_chaucer_-_portrait_and_life_of_chaucer_16th_c_f.1_-_bl_add_ms_5141.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait and Life of Chaucer - caption: 'Portrait of Chaucer'\" width=\"600\" height=\"465\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-81786\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From <i>Portrait and Life of Chaucer<\/i>, sixteenth century.<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Where did Chaucer get his writing done? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/books\/books-feature\/9414002\/a-window-on-chaucers-cramped-scary-smelly-world\/\">In absolute squalor, apparently<\/a>: \u201cFrom 1374 till 1386, while employed supervising the collection of wool-duties, Chaucer was billeted in a grace-and-favor bachelor pad in the tower directly above Aldgate \u2026 The only natural light would come from \u2018two (or at most four) arrow slits\u2019 tapering through the five-foot thickness of these walls \u2026 Meanwhile \u2018a stench wafted from the open sewer known in its northern extension as Houndsditch that ran (or festered) just outside the city wall\u2019; Houndsditch was so called because of the many dead dogs dumped there. In addition to rotting garbage, dead dogs, and fecal waste from the next-door Holy Trinity Priory, you\u2019d find \u2018the occasional human corpse.\u2019\u2009\u201d<\/li>\n<li>A Christian publisher has pulled a best-selling memoir, <em>The Boy Who Came Back from Heaven<\/em>, after its author, Alex Malarkey, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/thetwo-way\/2015\/01\/15\/377589757\/boy-says-he-didn-t-go-to-heaven-publisher-says-it-will-pull-book\">admitted that he made the story up<\/a>. \u201cI did not die. I did not go to heaven,\u201d Malarkey wrote. \u201cI said I went to heaven because I thought it would get me attention.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>When he died in 1989, John Cassavetes left behind a lot of unpublished or unproduced work\u2014novels, plays, screenplays. Now his last project, a play called <em>Begin the Beguine<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/prospero\/2015\/01\/john-cassavetes\">has finally had its premiere<\/a>, in Vienna of all places \u2026<\/li>\n<li>Michel Houellebecq, Francophobe: \u201cHouellebecq is not merely a satirist but\u2014more unusually\u2014a <em>sincere<\/em> satirist, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2015\/01\/26\/next-thing\">genuinely saddened by the absurdities of history and the madnesses of mankind<\/a>. He doesn\u2019t \u2018delight in depicting our follies,\u2019 as reviewers like to say; he\u2019s made miserable by them. French reviews and American previews of <em>Submission<\/em> might leave one with the impression of a sardonic, teeth-baring polemic about the evils of Islam, the absurdities of feminism, the terrible demoralization of French life. In truth, the tone of the book is melancholic rather than polemical. Life makes Houellebecq blue.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>On Arthur Goldhammer, who\u2019s translated more than a hundred\u00a0books from French to English: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newrepublic.com\/article\/120762\/arthur-goldhammer-translations-are-vital-bridge-between-french-us?utm_content=buffere4a70&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer\">Translation is like forming any kind of human relationship<\/a> \u2026 When you meet a new person you think it might be a friend, you are still sometimes wary, you are not completely familiar with the kinds of exchange you are going to have with this person, so you are more cautious at the beginning. Caution is one of the things a translator has to overcome.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where did Chaucer get his writing done? 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