Jean Pavans

For various publishers, he translated other Anglo-Saxon classics, such as Edith Wharton, Virginia Woolf, Gertrude Stein, Harold Pinter, Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron.

His first play adapted from Henry James, Retour à Florence, was performed in 1985 at the Théâtre du Rond-Point, in Paris.

Published in 2003, his translation of Harold Pinter's The Proust Screenplay was broadcast in 2012 by France Culture with the actors of the Comédie-Française.

In 2015, he worked with film director Julien Landais[3] on a script in English based on his scenic adaptation of Les Papiers d'Aspern.

The film, The Aspern Papers, was shot in Venice in July 2017, starring Vanessa Redgrave, Joely Richardson and Jonathan Rhys-Meyers.