Michael Syrotinski is Assistant Professor in French at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. He has published a translation of The Necessity of the Mind (La Nécessité d'esprit) by Roger Caillois, and has co-translated (with Christine Laennec) Progress in Love on the Slow Side: Récits by Jean Paulhan, with an essay by Maurice Blanchot.
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