# Stanley Chapman

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{{Short description|British architect (1925–2009)}}
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'''Stanley Chapman''' (15 September 1925 – 26 May 2009) was a British architect, designer, translator and writer. His interests included [theatre](/source/theatre) and ['pataphysics](/source/'pataphysics). He was involved with founding the [Royal National Theatre](/source/Royal_National_Theatre) in [London](/source/London), became a member of [Oulipo](/source/Oulipo) in 1961,<ref>Precisely February, the 13th. See the official website of the Oulipo: https://oulipo.net/fr/historique-de-loulipo</ref> founder of the [Outrapo](/source/Outrapo), and was also a member of the [Collège de Pataphysique](/source/Pataphysics), the [http://www.atlaspress.co.uk/theLIP/ London Institute of Pataphysics] and the Lewis Carroll Society. In the early 1950s he contributed poems and designed covers for the literary magazines ''[Listen](/source/Listen_(magazine))'' and [''Stand''](/source/Stand_(magazine)), and contributed translations to [''Chanticleer''](/source/Chanticleer_(magazine)), a magazine edited by the poet [Ewart Milne](/source/Ewart_Milne).<ref>See the ''Correspondancier du Collège de 'Pataphysique'' n°23. Paris, 2013.</ref> His English translation of [''A Hundred Thousand Billion Poems''](/source/Hundred_Thousand_Billion_Poems) was received with "admiring stupefaction"<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://oulipo.net/fr/oulipiens/sc|title=Stanley Chapman|date=21 August 2013}}</ref> by [Raymond Queneau](/source/Raymond_Queneau).

==Some publications==
* ''Onze mille verbes, cent virgules'' Temps Mêlés n° 98, Verviers, 1969.
* ''Messaline au Bistrot'' Dragée Haute n°21. 1996. Publié par Noël Arnaud.
* ''Epopélerinage'' Dragée Haute n°35. 1999. Publié par Noël Arnaud.

==Some translations==
* ''Everyone Knows'' by [Raymond Queneau](/source/Raymond_Queneau)
* ''Darwin certainly saw the importance of the earthworm'' by [Raymond Queneau](/source/Raymond_Queneau)
* ''[Heartsnatcher](/source/Heartsnatcher)'' by [Boris Vian](/source/Boris_Vian)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://mostlyfiction.com/world/vian.htm|title=Boris Vian : Heartsnatcher : Book Review}}</ref>
* ''[Froth on the Daydream](/source/Froth_on_the_Daydream)'' by [Boris Vian](/source/Boris_Vian)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://rob.toadshow.com.au/01_cms/details.asp?ID=344|title = Froth on the Daydream - review by Robert Whyte}}</ref>
* ''Autumn in Pekin'' by [Boris Vian](/source/Boris_Vian) (unpublished)
* ''The Night-Watch by [Arthur Rimbaud](/source/Arthur_Rimbaud)'' [a poem actually by Desnos] in ''Liberty or Love'' by [Robert Desnos](/source/Robert_Desnos). The novel itself was translated by Terry Hale.
* '' Camille Renault, 1866–1954, World-Maker.'' by Jean Hugues Sainmont [pseudonym of [Emmanuel Peillet](/source/Emmanuel_Peillet)]<ref>[:fr:Emmanuel Peillet](/source/%3Afr%3AEmmanuel_Peillet)</ref>{{Circular reference|date=July 2019}}
* ''Deliquescences'' by [Adoré Floupette](/source/Ador%C3%A9_Floupette)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.atlaspress.co.uk/index.cgi?action=view_eclectic&number=4 |title=Eclectics & Heteroclites 4 - The Deliquescences of Ador Floupette - (''Ador Floupette'') |website=www.atlaspress.co.uk |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120111042936/http://www.atlaspress.co.uk/index.cgi?action=view_eclectic&number=4 |archive-date=2012-01-11}}</ref>
* ''Bibi-La-Bibiste'' by [Raymonde Linossier](/source/Raymonde_Linossier)

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.fatrazie.com/component/search/?searchword=chapman&searchphrase=all&Itemid=101 Stanley Chapman]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20031008054112/http://www2.ec-lille.fr/~book/oulipo/ l'Oulipo site (in French)]
* [http://site.voila.fr/outrapo/index.jhtml l'Outrapo site (in French)]
* [http://www.atlaspress.co.uk/theLIP/index.cgi?action=chap L.I.P. website]

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