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Spanish term or phrase:
fermento francés
English translation:
"intellectual ferment" in France
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patinba
Aug 15, 2018 11:15
5 yrs ago
Spanish term
fermento francés
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This is considered a metaphor in an essay on Argentine artists in France in the 60s. The obvious translation is "French ferment" or yeast, but the use of quotation marks makes me think it might be an expression used in other ways:
En este sentido, las obras construidas con las cajitas redondas de ese queso [IN REFERENCE TO CAMEMBERT] tan asociado al gusto francés constituyeron una obra clave en la exploración de un lenguaje artístico renovado. Bien pueden pensarse como una metáfora del ‘fermento francés’ que, en ese mismo descomponerse catalizó la experimentación formal y el burbujeo de una materia nueva, putrefacta pero rica
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En este sentido, las obras construidas con las cajitas redondas de ese queso [IN REFERENCE TO CAMEMBERT] tan asociado al gusto francés constituyeron una obra clave en la exploración de un lenguaje artístico renovado. Bien pueden pensarse como una metáfora del ‘fermento francés’ que, en ese mismo descomponerse catalizó la experimentación formal y el burbujeo de una materia nueva, putrefacta pero rica
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"intellectual ferment" in France
Could this be a reference to the upheaval in France in 1968?
May 1968: A Month of Revolution Pushed France Into the Modern ...
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/05/world/europe/france-may-1...
May 5, 2018 - A student hurling rocks at the police in Paris during the May 1968 ... and social one that in a stunningly short time changed French society. ... in France grew out of the 1968 upheaval and the intellectual ferment of the time.
May 1968: A Month of Revolution Pushed France Into the Modern ...
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/05/world/europe/france-may-1...
May 5, 2018 - A student hurling rocks at the police in Paris during the May 1968 ... and social one that in a stunningly short time changed French society. ... in France grew out of the 1968 upheaval and the intellectual ferment of the time.
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