Origins and Legacies of Marcel Duhamel's Série Noire

Title: Origins and Legacies of Marcel Duhamel's Série Noire
Creator: Rolls, Alistair Charles; Sitbon, Clara Dominque; Vuaille-Barcan, Marie-Laure Jacqueline
Relation: Approaches to Translation Studies 46
Relation: https://brill.com/display/title/36049
Publisher: Brill
Resource Type: book
Date: 2018
Description: In Origins and Legacies of Marcel Duhamel’s Série Noire Alistair Rolls, Clara Sitbon and Marie-Laure Vuaille-Barcan counter the myths and received wisdom that are typically associated with this iconic French crime fiction series, namely: that it was born in Paris on a tide of postwar euphoria; that it initially consisted of translations of American hard-boiled classics by the likes of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler; and that the translations were rushed and rather approximate. Instead, an alternative vision of Duhamel’s translation practice is proposed, one based on a French tradition of auto-, or “original”, translation of “ostensibly” American crime fiction, and one that appropriates the source text in order to create an allegory of the target culture.
Subject: Marcel Duhamel; Série Noire; crime fiction; translation practice
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1471795
Identifier: uon:48726
Identifier: ISBN:9789004358973
Language: eng