COMPRENDRE AVANT DE JUGER Vanoncini, André
Revue d'histoire littéraire de la France,
11/2021, Letnik:
121, Številka:
4
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Les personnages de Simenon, s’ils s’inscrivent dans le cadre traditionnel du roman social, sont engagés en même temps dans une quête de type existentialiste. Ils appartiennent presque tous à la ...petite, moyenne ou grande bourgeoisie, étiquettes qu’ils assument ou contre lesquelles ils se révoltent. Quant à Maigret, il est certes le représentant d’une ascension au sein de la hiérarchie bourgeoise. Mais il s’élève au-dessus du simple type social grâce à la puissance d’une aura mythique.
Simenon’s characters, if they fit into the traditional framework of the social novel, are engaged at the same time in a quest that is existentialist in nature. They almost all belong to the petty, middle, or high bourgeoisie, labels that they accept or rebel against. As for Maigret, he is certainly an exemplar of an ascent through the bourgeois hierarchy. But he transcends a simple social type thanks to the power of a mythical aura.
The project examines how German- and English-speaking translators of selected Maigret novels by the Belgian crime writer Georges Simenon have dealt with cultural and linguistic specificity, with a ...view to shedding light on how culture and language translate. Following a survey of different theories of translation, an integrated theory is applied in order to highlight what Simenon’s translators have retained and lost from three selected source texts: Le Charretier de la Providence (1931), Les Mémoires de Maigret (1951) and Maigret et les braves gens (1961). The examination of issues of linguistic and cultural specificity is facilitated by application of an integrated theory of translation coupled with the methodology devised by Hervey, Higgins and Loughridge (1992, 1995 and 2002). In addition, consideration of paradigms of detective fiction across the three cultures involved, and Simenon’s biography and wider oeuvre, help elucidate the salient features of the selected source texts. In view of the translators’ decisions, strategies for minimising various types of translation loss are presented. While other studies of translation theory have examined literary and technical texts, this study breaks new ground by focussing specifically on the comparative analysis of detective fiction in translation.
Classic Returns Rogers, Michael
Library Journal,
03/2007, Letnik:
132, Številka:
4
Book Review
Various previously published books--in updated versions--are reviewed, including Charles McCarry's Second Sight and Naguib Mahfouz's Three Novels of Ancient Egypt.
