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Alan Sheridan


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Born Alan Mark Sheridan-Smith, Sheridan read English at St Catharine's College, Cambridge before spending 5 years in Paris as English assistant at Lycée Henri IV and Lycée Condorcet.[1] Returning to London, he briefly worked in publishing before becoming a freelance translator. He has translated works of fiction, history, philosophy, literary criticism, biography and psychoanalysis by Jean-Paul Sartre, Jacques Lacan, Michel Foucault, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Robert Pinget and many others. He was the first to publish a book in English on Foucault's work and has also written a biography of André Gide, plus two novels. ...more

Average rating: 4.12 · 57,185 ratings · 3,055 reviews · 54 distinct works
The Notebook, The Proof, Th...

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4.40 avg rating — 43,067 ratings — published 1991 — 2 editions
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Discipline and Punish: The ...

4.24 avg rating — 36,975 ratings — published 1975 — 4 editions
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The Notebook

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The Immoralist

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Michel Foucault: The Will t...

3.61 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 1980 — 17 editions
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Andre Gide: A Life in the P...

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Time and Place

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Vacation

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Michel Foucault: The Will t...

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“The Summer Garden, perhaps the most beautiful garden in Petersburg, had the particular advantage of being almost next to the Embassy. Originally laid out by Leblond, in the manner of Versailles, its most remarkable feature was a series of fountains, with statuary depicting scenes from Aesop's Fables.”
Alan Sheridan, Time and Place

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