De la mue (sic !) avant toute chose ! Ou la tentation de Saint Jérôme

From Verlainian motto "Music before anything else", this article rewrites, almost the same thing ... If at first it was a simple play on words, later it became something very serious. A parallel between literature and translation ensues, between writing and translating, between author and translator. Final conclusion: a great author can not be translated but by a great translator.