a letter from Juan Luis Buñuel, son of the surrealist filmmaker Luis Buñuel, responding to a request to name a street after his father at Disneyland Paris in 2003
Paris, March 15, 2003
Mr. Olivier Cotlet
…
Dear Sir, Following the receipt of your letter, my brother and I would agree to a street named Luis Buñuel at Disneyland France, but with two conditions:
-That the Disney Company pay us 10,000,000 € (tax-free), and:
-that the street should bear this title: Boulevard Luis Buñuel — Me cago en Dios y el Fascista de Walt Disney (“I shit on God and on Walt Disney the fascist” — these are swear words in Spanish)
I think you’ve understood. I hope you will forward this letter to Maître Duclos.
Thank you for your kindness in writing to me.
Juan Luis Buñuel
P.S. Please excuse my atrocious spelling
A small fix on the translation:
“Maître” (which usually means master, or sometimes teacher), is here an honorary title for lawyers (possibly only for attorneys, I’m not sure)
So I would not have kept it, but maybe I’m wrong and the norm is to keep it when mentioning a French attorney from a French text
oh, i thought it was a name, i’m not knowledgeable in french. merci
No worries! De rien
BTW I’ve not taken the time to reply to your answer on my post, so I’m thanking you here and now
Sometimes titles are easier to leave in the original language, especially when they’re country/region specific. Not a critique of your critique, just an observation from reading various translated texts.
I think you’re right. It may depend on what/who the translation is for as well
And thank you for your answer on my post
I assumed salvador dali was a comrade because he came up with buñuel but no he was a fascist.
A shame for him, since he was a Catalan, and in his younger years was involved in communist circles. Then he became “apolitical” and then embraced Franco.
As opposed to Picasso who started out more apolitical, but over time became more and more involved with Marxism.
