Addendum: Translating Toussaint, or the art of the passive offside

First up, many thanks to Marisa Silver for an outstanding week at the helm of TEV.  Thanks for classing up the joint.

I've got some more worthy guest content to share with you all this week, so next up is an "addendum" to a conversation between Jean-Philippe Toussaint's translators conducted here last year by Jim Ruland.  Jim recently heard from John Lambert, who wrote to him as follows:

Jean-Philippe Toussaint was in Berlin for the month of March. As I've translated three of his books...