Bellos mss., 1985-2005
Papers, 1985-2005, of David Bellos at the Lilly Library, Indiana University,
Bloomington, Indiana
Electronic finding aid encoded by Donal C.
Force.
Summary Information
Repository
Lilly
Library (Indiana University, Bloomington)
Indiana University
1200 E. Seventh St.
Bloomington, IN 47405-5500
Phone: 812-855-2452
Fax: 812-855-3143
Email: liblilly@indiana.edu
http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly
Creator
Bellos, David
TitleBellos mss.,1985-2005
Collection No.
LMC 2533
Extent
5500 items
Language
Materials are in English and French.
Abstract
Consists of correspondence, notes,
manuscript drafts, research files and clippings relating to translations and writings of
literary translator and writer David Bellos.
Access Restrictions
This collection is open for research.
Biographical Note
David Bellos (1945- ), writer, translator, and professor of French was born in England
and educated at Oxford. He is particularly well-known for his translations of the French
novelist and short-story writer Georges Perec. In 1988, he was awarded the IBM France
translation prize for his translation of
Perec's Life: A User's
Manual
and the Prix de Goncourt de la Biographie in 1994 for his biography
Georges Perec: A Life in Words. Bellos, who is
presently a professor of French at Princeton University, has written or translated
numerous works in English and French on nineteenth- and twentieth-century French
literature.
Arrangement/Organization
The collection is organized into the following series: I. Georges Perec; II.
Translations of other authors; and, III. Miscellaneous.
Scope and Content Note
Consists of correspondence, notes, manuscript drafts, research files and clippings
relating to translations and writings of literary translator and writer David Bellos.
The majority of this collection (Series I) relates to his translations and biography of
Perec. Series II consists of translations by Bellos of other authors. Present in this
file are drafts and proofs of his translations of Ismail Kadare's
The Great Wall and
The Successor, as well as
notes for an early draft of
Seeking Whom He May Devour by
Fred Vargas. Series III consists of articles and reviews written by Bellos, chiefly for
The New York Review of Books, and clippings of reviews
of various books written by Bellos.
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Indexing Terms
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The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in
IUCAT, the IU Libraries' online
catalog. Materials about related topics, persons or places can be found by searching the
catalog using these terms.
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Names
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Bellos, David
--Correspondence.
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Perec, Georges,
1936-1982 --Correspondence.
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Perec, Georges,
1936-1982 --Translations into English.
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Perec, Georges,
1936-1982.
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Bellos, David. Georges
Perec.
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Kadare, Ismail. Grande muraille.
English
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Kadare, Ismail. Pasardhësi.
English
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Vargas, Fred. Homme à l'envers.
English
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Administrative Information
Acquisition Information
Gift. 2004, 2006
Usage RestrictionsPrior arrangements are not necessary before coming to the Library, however, patrons
from out of town are encouraged to communicate with the Library in advance of their
visits to ascertain availability of materials.
Photocopying permitted only with permission of the Curator of Manuscripts, Lilly
Library.
Preferred Citation
[Item], Bellos mss., Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.
Series:
Georges Perec
Subseries:
Georges Perec: A Life in Words
Box 1
Folder 1-6
Correspondence with Harvill Press and various French publishers,
1989-1998
Folder 7-147
Correspondence and interview notes
Archinaud, Mireille
Aubier, Pascal
Baratto, Franca Trentin
Baruk, Stella
Baudelot, Christian
Benabou, Marcel
Bellour, Raymond
Benoit Mayo, France
Benoit-Levy, Jacqueline
Besis, Pierre
Binet, Olivier
Bober, Robert
Boni, Paolo and Cuchi White
Bourgeade, Pierre
Bourgois, Christian
Brunhoff, Marie Claude and Ann de
Brunhoff, Laurent de
Buffard, Dennis
Burgelin, Claude
Calvino, Esther
Čanak-Medić, Milka
Carlinski, Alberto
Čavić, Dejan
Čelić, Stojan
Chaker, M’hamed
Chambers, Ros
Chavransky, Henri
Čolak-Antić, Vojin
Contat, Michel
Corneau, Alain
Coupfermann, Emile
Crespi, Henri
Crubellier, Jean
Cuvelier, Marcel
Dancié, Christine
Debray, Regis
Dem’uzan, Michel
Desanti, Dominique
Dessau, Frédéric
Drogoz, Philippe
Dupré, Georges
Duvigneaud, Jean
Etcheverry, Julian
Faure, Jean-Paul
Fejtö, François
Fezzani, Amor
Fournel, Paul
Freadman, Ann
Frischer, Dominique
Gautier, Henry
Georges, Michelle
Getzler, Pierre
Gibson, Richard
Gotlieb in G. Lenne.
"Je me souviens
du cinema"
Groffsky, Maxine
Grumberg, Jean-Claude
Guerin, Alain
Guerinat, Huguette
Guitaut, Jacqueline
Helmlé, Eugen
Henneberg, Claus
Henrion
Howard, Richard
Hugelin, André – Perec in the Lab
Jaulin, Bernard
Javoršek, Jože
Jemmali, Ridha
Joly, Jacques
Jousse, Michel
Jousse, Pierette
Kaplan, Leslie
Kaplan, Simone
Klarsfeld, Serge
Klippert, Werner
Kleman, Roger
Koupernik, Cyrille
Lalonde, Brice
Lamblin, Bianca
Landes, David
Lederer, Jacques
Lefèbvre, Henri
Lescure, Jean
Lieberman, Olive
Lipinska, Anne
Lipinska, Christine
Lipinska, Suzanne
Loridan, Marceline
Mailland, Jean
Mangolte, Babette
Manheim, Kate
Marcennac, Bruno (Mathieu)
Martens, Michel
Maspero, François
Mechri, Kmar
Menchari, Leïla
Mestre, Christine
Mikašinović, Branko
Mirabel, Bernard
Moaty, Francis
Molinard, Patrice
Morin, Edgar
Morris, Megan
Nadeau, Maurice
Naunim, M. A.
Obaldia, René de
Oleder/ P/C / Genre Humain
Otchakovsky-Laurens, Paul
Paris, Jean
Percheron, Daniel
Perec, Paulette
Peretz, Henri
Peretz, Uriel
Perriault, Jacques
Petrović, Zoran
Pontalis, J.-B.
Poulloux, Jean-Yves
Prévost, Jean-Pierre
Queysanne, Bernard
Quillet, Bernard
Rabin, Jean-François
Rappeneau, Jean-Paul
Raynaud, Jean
Richardson, Sylvia
Robbe-Grillet, Alain
Rosenzweig, Luc
Roubaud, Jacques
Rousseau, Marie-Claude
Rybalka, Michel
Sergent, Jean-Pierre
Serreau, Coline
Servières, Jacques
Srbinović, Mladen
Stanojević, Staša
Szulevicz, Anne/Jacques
Thibault, Marie-Noelle
Trutat, Alain
Vidal-Naquet, Pierre
Vidović, Žarko
Virilio, Paul
Zghal, Abelkader
Zingg, Gérard
Box 2
Folder 1-24
Notes and reports on research trips for
Georges Perec: A Life in Words, January 1988-March
1990.
Arranged by location or topic
Folder 25-34
Notes on specific elements of Perec’s life
Baptism of Georges Perec
Belleville between 1920 and 1925
French history of and information on Peretz/Bienenfeld
families
La ligne géneralé
Geographie de la France
Dossier scolaire/School dossier of Georges Perec
Lycée Henry IV
Military service of Georges Perec
Folder 35-40
General/miscellaneous notes for the Perec biography
Folder 41
Audiotape cassettes of research on Georges Perec recorded during
visits in Tunisia, Yugoslavia and France
(5 items)
Folder 42-45
Notes relating to the composition of the biography, January, March and
May 1990
Folder 46
Notebooks on Perec
Box 3
Folder 1-6
Notes and notebooks for
Georges Perec: A Life
in Words
Folder 7
Correspondence, 1989, about Georges Perec’s lecture
given at the University of Warwick, UK; photocopy of the lecture, May
1967
Folder 8-12
Correspondence with publishers, etc., 1988-1993,
about
Georges Perec: A Life in Words
Folder 13
Calendrier de la vie de Perec.
Original basic plan for Bellos's biography
Folder 14
Georges Perec: A Life in Words.
Early draft
Folder 15-17
Georges Perec: A Life in Words.
Corrected proofs
Box 4
Folder 1-2
Georges Perec: A Life in Words.
Corrected proofs
Folder 3-4
Ela Bienenfeld's notes on earliest version (early
1990)
Folder 5
Bianca Lamblin's corrections to part I of 1990 version
Folder 6-8
Bellos's notes on version I, 1990-1991
Folder 9
Problems and references
Folder 10-11
Bienenfeld, Ela. Correspondence, interview notes, photocopies of her
correspondence, etc. in the University of Pennsylvania
Folder 12
Binet, Catherine. Correspondence with Georges Perec, 1977–1981
(photocopies)
Folder 13
Binet, Catherine. Correspondence with Harry Mathews
(photocopies of originals in the University of Pennsylvania)
Folder 14
Binet, Catherine.
"La commande: ou
project d’un voyage à W"
(photocopy)
Folder 15
Binet, Catherine.
"Vous sovenez-vous de
Gaspard Winckler?"
Film script about Georges Perec
(photocopy with autograph corrections and changes)
Folder 16
Binet, Catherine. Correspondence and interview notes with Bellos;
Film sur Georges Perec: Part I:
Te souviens-tu de Gaspard Winckler? Part II:
Vous sovenez-vous de Gaspard Winckler?
Folder 17
Binet, Catherine. Audio cassettes of Catherine Binet talking about
Georges Perec, and the errors in David Bellos’s biography of
Perec
(7 items)
Folder 18
Binet, Catherine. Documents provided by Catherine Binet: Les jeux de
la comtesse Dolingen de Gratz; Binet's c.v.; notes; correspondence with
Bellos
Folder 19-24
Correspondence with publishers, etc. about Perec translations, ca.
1985-1996
Folder 25
Marie Chaix/Jacques Lederer/Laurant de Brunhoff correspondence,
1991 ,
with Bellos
Folder 26
Mathews, Harry. Correspondence: Oct. 1988–June
1995; interview notes; parts of Harry Mathews's
diary
Box 5
Folder 1-2
Georges Perec: A Life in Words.
Reviews
Subseries:
Writings, etc. by and about Georges Perec
Box 5
Folder 3-10
Photocopies of Georges Perec correspondence, 1957-1981
Folder 11
Correspondence: Perec to Philippe Guerinat, 1956–1959, photocopies
Folder 12
Correspondence: Perec to Eugan Hemle, transcriptions
Folder 13
Correspondence: Perec with Johann M. Kamps,
transcriptions
Folder 14
Notes and transcriptions of Georges Perec's letters to Jacques
Lederer, 1954-1961.
Edited versions of the letters have been published
Folder 15
Martens, Miche.
Card annotated by Georges Perec in black ink
Folder 16-24
"53 Jours."
Photocopies of the manuscript and typescript drafts from Harry Mathews's
copy of Perec’s unfinished novel; Bellos's transcriptions and editing in
preparation for the translation published as
53
Days
(UK 1992, US 2002).
Box 5
Folder 25
Copies of various writings by and about Perec
Folder 25
"L'Abominable Pardessus."
Film by Georges Franju, adaptation and dialogues by Georges Perec
Folder 26
"Alfred et Marie."
Un film de Gérard
Zingg, scénario et dialogues de Georges Perec
Folder 27
"L'Attentat de Sarajevo"
(incomplete)
Folder 28
"La bande magnétique."
Film treatment
Folder 29
"Le Bonheur."
Unpublished article by Perec on the film by A. Varda
Folder 30
Les choses
Folder 31
"Les choses."
Script for the movie adaptation of Perec’s book and
Les choses, screenplay, adaptation and
dialogues by Raymond Bellour, Jean Maillaud, and Georges Perec
Folder 32
Le condottière
Folder 33
"Ellis Island Revisted: Chronicles of vagrancy
and hope,"
translated by Harry Mathews
Folder 34-36
"Les Extraordinaires aventures de Monsieur
Eveready."
Unpublished script for radio serial
Box 6
Folder 1
"Les Extraordinaires aventures de Monsieur
Eveready"
Folder 2
"Le fou"
Folder 3
"Georges Perec L’amateur d’art"
Folder 4
Georges Perec – Australian Radio Programme.
Interview
Folder 5
Un homme qui dort.
Film script
Folder 6
Der Kartoffelkessel, radio-adaptation
Folder 7-8
Konzertstück
Folder 9-10
Lieux d’une fugue
Folder 11
"Les Lieux d’une ruse/About my
analysis"
Folder 12
Life: A User's manual, correspondence,
1985
Folder 13-14
Die Maschine
Folder 15
Malédiction! Screenplay by Perec and Jean-Pierre
Prévost
Folder 16
Manderre
Folder 17
Notes for films:
"Le club,"
"Le prince Michel,"
"La couronne de Saint Mathias,"
"La coronne de fer"
Folder 18
L'Oeil de l'Autre
Folder 19
Plays, Pieces and Puzzles
(photocopy)
Folder 20
Poetry by Georges Perec
Folder 21
Quel petit vélo
Folder 22
Radioscopie – Georges Perec.
Interview by Jacques Chancel
Folder 23
Signe particuler: NEANT.
Projet de long-métrage de fiction
Folder 24
"The Story of a Painting,"
translated
by Bellos
Folder 25
A tire d’aile, script for the film by Pascal Aubier, adaptation
and dialogues by Georges Perec
Folder 26
La vie privée.
Corrected proofs
(incomplete)
Folder 27-28
Voyage d’hiver/The Winter Journey
Folder 29-32
W ou le souvenir d’enfance
Folder 33
"Wucherungen."
German radio script
(photocopy)
Box 7
Folder 1
Miscellaneous short pieces by Perec
Folder 2-23
Miscellaneous Perec memorabilia, magazines, articles, art
publications, etc.
Included is a photocopy of Perec’s elementary school notebook; book
blurbs by Perec; two cigarillo boxes left by Georges Perec in photo
session which resulted in a famous Perec and cat photograph; medical
pamphlets of the sort Georges Perec dealt with as bibliographer of the
CNRS LA 38; obituaries of Perec
Folder 24-30
Scrapbooks of Perec Press files
(7 items)
Box 8
Folder 1
Scrapbooks of Perec Press files (cont.).
Inventory listings: 1) by date; 2) by scrapbook number; 3) by
newspaper/magazine; and 4) alphabetically by author
Folder 2
Copies of dust jackets for various Perec publications
Folder 3-26
Miscellaneous.
Includes clippings, photocopies of articles, lecture notes, etc. Some
relate to Perec, some do not.
Arranged alphabetically by author or subject of the file.
Abraham/Torok
Appel du Silence
Atelier de création radiophonique
Ave de Segur
Simone de Beauvoir.
Reading notes
Maurice Blanchot
Georges Burnacks
Les Doigts dan la Cassure
Philippe Drogoz – L'enlevement, opera en cinq actes
Sergei M. Eisenstein
John Forbes
Lucien Goldman, notes
Alain Guerin,
"Le bon depart."
Notes
Hamon/Rotman,
"Génération, les anées
de Rêve"
E.A.J. Honigmann article on autobiography,
New York Review, Dec. 7, 1989
Les Doigts dan la Cassure
Les Doigts dan la Cassure
Jean-Noel Jeanneney
Franz Kafka.
Translation history, notes
Milan Kundera.
TLS review,
June 24,
1988
Christine Lipinska.
Clippings
G. Lukács translations.
Notes
Clara Malraux, Atlan
Patricia Molteni
Folder 27
Bellos correspondence with Random House publishers, 2002-2003
(email printouts)
Series:
Translations of other authors
Subseries:
Kadare, Ismail
Box 8
Folder 28
The Great Wall.
First draft of translation; printout; copy-edited galleys (two sets)
Folder 29
The Successor.
First draft of translation
Folder 30
The Successor.
Late draft with some corrections by Bellos in pencil
Folder 31
The Successor.
Bellos’s responses to copy-editor; corrected galleys
Folder 32
Clippings about Kadare and reviews of his works
Subseries:
Vargas, Fred
Box 8
Folder 33
Seeking Whom He May Devour.
Bellos's notes
Folder 34
Seeking Whom He May Devour.
First version of translation, heavily corrected
Series:
Miscellaneous
Box 8
Folder 36
Miscellaneous articles, etc. written by Bellos for
The New York Review of Books
Folder 37
Clippings of reviews of various books written by Bellos
Series:
2018 Additions
Subseries:
Georges Perec
Box 9
53 Days, 1991
(3 folders)
Thoughts of Sorts
I Remember
I Remember, page proofs
I Remember, edits to Philip Terry's translation
I Remember, edits to Philip Terry's translation, including Bellos's introduction and notes
Portrait of a Man
(4 folders)
Subseries:
Translations of Other Authors
Anselme, Daniel -
On Leave
Fournel, Paul -
Dear Reader
Kadare, Ismail -
Twilight of the Eastern Gods, chapters 1-3
Kadare, Ismail -
Twilight of the Eastern Gods, chapters 4-5 and list of principal characters
Kadare, Ismail -
The Student, chapters 1-3
Kadare, Ismail -
The Student, chapters 4-5
Simenon, Georges -
Pietr the Latvian, copy edits
Box 10
Simenon, Georges -
Pietr the Latvian, page proofs for Bellos to edit and return
Simenon, Georges -
Pietr the Latvian, page proofs for Bellos to keep for reference
Simenon, Georges -
Double Trouble: The Case of Baltic Pete
Simenon, Georges -
Foreign Bodies
Subseries:
Writings
Is That a Fish in your Ear?, Silvia Morawetz's German translation, chapters 1-9
Is That a Fish in your Ear?, Silvia Morawetz's German translation, chapters 10-19
Is That a Fish in your Ear?, Silvia Morawetz's German translation, chapters 20-32 and end matter
