Origins and legacies of Marcel Duhamel's Série noire
By: by Alistair Rolls, Clara Sitbon, Marie-Laure Vuaille-Barcan
Contributors: Sitbon, Clara, author; Vuaille-Barcan, Marie-Laure, 1962- author
Series: Approaches to translation studies -- volume 46; Approaches to translation studies -- v. 46.
Publisher: Brill Rodopi
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9789004358973
Subjects: History; American Detective and mystery stories; Translations into French; History and criticism; Série noire
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" --
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Marcel Duhamel's translations and the Serie noire: myths and received wisdom; title: Edgar Allan Poe and Charles Baudelaire: the origins of a noir skopos; title: Peter Cheyney: the man who was dangerous; title: James Hadley Chase, Miss Blandish and the hidden face of the Serie noire; title: Vernon Sullivan, forever on the sidelines of the Serie noire; title: Jim Thompson and the lost souls of the Serie noire; title: Douglas Kennedy, the man for whom crime paid; title: Conclusion: where to from here for Serie noire studies?