“At college, Ducasse was on better terms with me and Minvielle than with the other students. But we noticed his distant attitude, a kind of disdainful solemnity and a tendency to consider himself as someone apart.”
This recent translation from Firmament Vol. 3, No. 1 is now available to read in full on the Sublunary Editions website.
I like this -- "outrages of thought and style". A slightly mysterious interview. An old man looking back 70 years and describing Ducasse whom he didn't understand at all and yet offering tiny flashes of revelation that the reader has to decode.