Andrew Brown (translator)

Andrew Brown is a French to English literary translator and author of a book on Roland Barthes.

Before turning to translation, Brown was a lecturer in French at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of King's College, Cambridge.

Authored book

  • Roland Barthes: The Figures of Writing (Oxford University Press, 1992)

Translations

  • Stendhal, Letters to Pauline (Hesperus Press, 2008)
  • Alexandre Dumas, The Corsican Brothers (Hesperus Press, 2008)
  • Jean-François Bayart, Global Subjects: A Political Critique of Globalization (Polity Press, 2007)
  • Voltaire, Memoires of the Life of Monsieur de Voltaire (Hesperus Press, 2007)
  • Cyrano de Bergerac, Journey to the Moon (Hesperus Press, 2007)
  • Marquis de Sade, Betrayal (Hesperus Press, 2007)
  • Yasmine Ghata, The Calligraphers' Night (Hesperus Press, 2006)
  • Alexandre Dumas, Captain Pamphile (Hesperus Press, 2006)
  • Pietro Aretino, The Secret Lives of Wives (Hesperus Press, 2006)
  • Colette, Claudine's House (Hesperus Press, 2006)
  • Jacques-Pierre Amette, Brecht's Mistress (Hesperus Press, 2005)
  • Jacques-Pierre Amette, Brecht's Lover (Hesperus Press, 2005)
  • Marie Ferranti, The Princess of Mantua, (Hesperus Press, 2005)
  • Gilles Lipovetski, Hypermodern Times (Polity Press, 2005)
  • George Sand, The Devil's Pool (Hesperus Press, 2005)
  • Alexandre Dumas, One Thousand and One Ghosts, (Hesperus Press, 2005)
  • Xavier de Maistre, A Journey around my Room, (Hesperus Press, 2005)
  • Émile Zola, Dream, (Hesperus Press, 2005)
  • Gustave Flaubert, November: Fragments in a nondescript Style (Hesperus Press, 2005)
  • Eric Laurent, Bush's secret World: Religion, Big Business and Hidden Networks (Polity Press, 2004)
  • Lorenza de'Medici, Apology for a [...] (Hesperus Press, 2004)
  • Antoine François Prevost, Manon Lescaut (Hesperus Press, 2004)
  • Marcel Proust, Pleasures and Days (Hesperus Press, 2004)
  • François Rabelais, Gargantua (Hesperus Press, 2004)
  • Niccolò Machiavelli, Life of Castruccio Castracani (Hesperus Press, 2004)
  • Prosper Mérimée, Carmen and the Venus of Ille (Hesperus Press, 2004)
  • Guy de Maupassant, Butterball (Hesperus Press, 2003)
  • Stendhal, Memoires of an Egotist (Hesperus Press, 2003)
  • Friedrich von Schiller, The Ghost-Seer (Hesperus Press, 2003)
  • Jules Verne, Fantasy of Dr. Ox (Hesperus Press, 2003)
  • Marquis de Sade, Incest: A Tragic Tale (Hesperus Press, 2003)
  • Bernard-Henri Lévy, Sartre: The Philosopher of the Twentieth Century (Polity Press, 2003)
  • François Rabelais, Pantagruel (Hesperus Press, 2003)
  • Joris-Karl Huysmans, With the Flow: and M. Bougran's Retirement (Hesperus Press, 2003)
  • Théophile Gautier, Jinx (Hesperus Press, 2003)
  • E T A Hoffmann, Mademoiselle de Scuderi (Hesperus Press, 2003)
  • Charles Baudelaire, On Wine and Hashish (Gay Men's Press, 2003)
  • Franz Kafka, Metamorphosis and other stories (Gay Men's Press, 2003)
  • Gustave Flaubert, Memoirs of a Madman (Hesperus Press, 2003)