Glossary entry

Spanish term or phrase:

fermento francés

English translation:

"intellectual ferment" in France

Added to glossary by patinba
Aug 15, 2018 11:15
5 yrs ago
Spanish term

fermento francés

Spanish to English Other Idioms / Maxims / Sayings
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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3 +5 "intellectual ferment" in France
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Aug 20, 2018 12:56: patinba Created KOG entry

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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.
Peer comment(s):

agree Charles Davis
44 mins
Thank you, Charles!
agree Marcelo González
2 hrs
Gracias!
agree Marie Wilson
3 hrs
Thank you!
agree neilmac : Or words to that effect...
5 hrs
as long s they include "ferment" or the point will be missed ... Thanks!
agree JohnMcDove : Or words to that... mmmmhh... brouhaha!
14 hrs
mmm Thanks!
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