Stanley Chapman
Stanley Chapman (15 September 1925 – 26 May 2009) was a British architect, designer, translator and writer. His interests included theatre and 'pataphysics. He was involved with founding the Royal National Theatre in London, became a member of Oulipo in 1961, founder of the Outrapo, and was also a member of the Collège de Pataphysique, the London Institute of Pataphysics and the Lewis Carroll Society.
Stanley Chapman
- Born
- 1925
- Died
- 2009
- Nationality
- United Kingdom · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Occupation
- architect · writer · translator · designer
- Languages
- English
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Stanley Chapman (15 September 1925 – 26 May 2009) was a British architect, designer, translator and writer. His interests included theatre and 'pataphysics. He was involved with founding the Royal National Theatre in London, became a member of Oulipo in 1961, founder of the Outrapo, and was also a member of the Collège de Pataphysique, the London Institute of Pataphysics and the Lewis Carroll Society.
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• Everyone Knows by Raymond Queneau • Darwin certainly saw the importance of the earthworm by Raymond Queneau • Heartsnatcher by Boris Vian • Froth on the Daydream by Boris Vian • Autumn in Pekin by Boris Vian (unpublished) • The Night-Watch by Arthur Rimbaud [a poem actually by Desnos] in Liberty or Love by Robert Desnos. The novel itself was translated by Terry Hale. • Camille Renault, 1866–1954, World-Maker. by Jean Hugues Sainmont [pseudonym of Emmanuel Peillet] • Deliquescences by Adoré Floupette • Bibi-La-Bibiste by Raymonde Linossier
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In the early 1950s he contributed poems and designed covers for the literary magazines Listen and Stand, and contributed translations to Chanticleer, a magazine edited by the poet Ewart Milne. His English translation of A Hundred Thousand Billion Poems was received with "admiring stupefaction" by Raymond Queneau.
• Onze mille verbes, cent virgules Temps Mêlés n° 98, Verviers, 1969. • Messaline au Bistrot Dragée Haute n°21. 1996. Publié par Noël Arnaud. • Epopélerinage Dragée Haute n°35. 1999. Publié par Noël Arnaud.
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- 1.Precisely February, the 13th. See the official website of the Oulipo: https://oulipo.net/fr/historique-de-loulipo
- 2.See the Correspondancier du Collège de 'Pataphysique n°23. Paris, 2013.
- 3.Stanley Chapman. 21 August 2013.
- 4.Boris Vian : Heartsnatcher : Book Review.
- 5.Froth on the Daydream - review by Robert Whyte.
- 6.:fr:Emmanuel Peillet
- 7.Eclectics & Heteroclites 4 - The Deliquescences of Ador Floupette - (Ador Floupette). www.atlaspress.co.uk.
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