An 80-year-old man thinks back to his younger days of climbing in the Alps, when he and a friend aided Xavier Berthiand after an avalanche took out his rope and two companions.
—Michael Main

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  1. “Le temps chevauché” by Anne Sauvy, in Les flammes de pierre: Nouvelles (Editions Montalba, 1982).
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Anne Sauvy

Translations

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  1. English.
    “Time Reversal” by Anne Sauvy, in One Step in the Clouds, edited by Audrey Salkeld and Rosie Smith (Diadem Books, 1990).
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Anne Sauvy
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . translated by Jeremy Bernstein
  2. English: revised translation.
    “Time Reversal” by Anne Sauvy, in Flammes de Pierre: Short Stories about Mountains and Mountaineers (Diadem Books, 1991).
    3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Anne Sauvy
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . translated by Jeremy Bernstein
    John Wilkinson (revision)

Indexer Notes

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  1. French title—We verified the French title of “Le temps chevauché” via a search for that title in Sauvy’s 1985 collection, Le jeu de la montagne et du hasard : nouvelles, at Hathi Trust; and we verified that this is the same story as the one in the English edition of Flammes de pierre by searching for key names such as “Odette.” We had to jump through these hoops because we had no access to the French edition of  Les flammes de pierre.
  2. English titles—We directly verified the title of “Time Reversal” in both Jeremy Bernstein’s translation and the later revision by Wilkinson. Anthea Bell may have done another translation, but we have not yet found it.