Austryn Wainhouse

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Austryn Wainhouse is an American translator, primarily of French works and notably of Marquis de Sade, sometimes using pseudonym Pieralessandro Casavini.

As a graduate of Harvard University and prior to completing his graduate program at the University of Iowa, Austryn Wainhouse traveled around Europe before settling in Paris where he began working for Maurice Girodias at Olympia Press, and later as an editor of Merlin.[1][2] His first wife Mary, also known as Muffy or Muffie, also worked for Girodias, and later came to be living with him.[1][3][4]

He produced the first unexpurgated English translation of Justine for Olympia Press in 1953. Two years later, Wainhouse returned to the United States.[5] Wainhouse later revised his translation of Justine for publication in the United States by Grove Press in 1965.[6][7]

In 1960, Gay Talese described him as:[8]

“ .. a dis-enchanted Exeter-Harvard man who wrote a strong, esoteric novel, Hedyphagetica, and who, after several years in France, is now living in Martha's Vineyard building furniture according to the methods of the eighteenth century. ”

In 1972, Wainhouse received the National Book Award for translating Jacques Monod's Chance and Necessity.[9]

By 1983, he had established publishing firm The Marlboro Press in Marlboro, Vermont.[10]

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  1. ^ a b Nile Southern (2004). The Candy Men: The Rollicking Life and Times of the Notorious Novel. New York: Arcade Pub.. pp. 11, 19–20. ISBN 155970604X. 
  2. ^ "Baird Bryant". http://realitystudio.org/bibliographic-bunker/baird-bryant. 
  3. ^ "Publish and be damned". The Irish Times. November 17, 2001. http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2001/1117/01111700217.html. 
  4. ^ Patrick J. Kearney (October 2005). "Maurice Girodias, Fandom, and Me". E*I*22 4 (5). http://efanzines.com/EK/eI22/#kearney. 
  5. ^ "PARADISO: Paris: May 1952". http://ocotilloarts.com/expatriate/Nine/nine.htm. 
  6. ^ Raymond Giraud (1965). "The First Justine". Yale French Studies (35 (The House of Sade)): pp. 39–47. doi:10.2307/2929452. JSTOR 2929452. 
  7. ^ Alex Szogyi (July 25, 1965). "A Full Measure of Madness; The Complete Justine, Philosophy in the Bedroom and other writings. By the Marquis de Sade. Compiled and translated by Richard Seaver and Austryn Wainhouse. Introduction by Jean Paulhan and Maurice Blanchot 753 pp. New York: Grove Press. $15. Full Measure". New York Times. http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F20A12FE3C5A157A93C7AB178CD85F418685F9&scp=1&sq=%22Austryn+Wainhouse%22+sade&st=p. 
  8. ^ Gay Talese (1960). "Looking For Hemingway". Esquire. http://www.harbour.sfu.ca/~hayward/paris/looking-for-hemingway.html. 
  9. ^ Henry Raymont (April 12, 1972). "Book Award to Flannery O'Connor". New York Times. http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50D13F83B591A7493C0A8178FD85F468785F9. 
  10. ^ Georges Hyvernaud (1997). The Cattle Car: Including, Letter to a Little Girl. pp. back cover. ISBN 9780810160316. http://books.google.com/?id=NONJSm9j1P4C&pg=PT1. 
  11. ^ Evergreen Review Vol. 10 No. 42 August 1966
  12. ^ Evergreen Review: Letter to the Editor, by Maurice Girodias
  13. ^ D.A.F. Marquis de Sade ; (2005). Justine; Or Good Conduct Well-chastised. S.l.: Olympia Press. pp. 2. ISBN 1596541768. http://books.google.com/?id=-Icj8sL1p6cC&pg=PA2. 
  14. ^ Aline B. Saarinen (December 4, 1955). "MANET. Biographical and Critical Study by Georges Bataille". New York Times. http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F00C15FD3C55107A93C6A91789D95F418585F9. 
  15. ^ Richard Hughes (May 18, 1958). "THE LONG MARCH. By Simone de Beauvoir". New York Times. http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0C15F7355E127A93CAA8178ED85F4C8585F9. 
  16. ^ W. H. Gass (September 22, 1968). "Written With a Hose; Written With a Hose". New York Times. http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F4091EF8395E1A7B93C0AB1782D85F4C8685F9&scp=2&sq=%22Austryn+Wainhouse%22+sade&st=p. 
  17. ^ Richard Burgin (March 9, 1997). "Lucien's story". New York Times Book Review 102 (10). http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/03/09/reviews/970309.09burgint.html. 

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