Configuration traducteur–auteur: jeu sur deux lignes. Sur la Vengeance du traducteur de Brice Matthieussent

• Authors: Joanna Jakubowska-Cichoń

Title variants

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TRANSLATOR–AUTHOR CONFIGURATION: THE GAME ON TWO LINES. ON BRICE MATHIEUSENT’S VENGEANCE DU TRADUCTEUR

• Languages of publication: FR

Abstracts

EN

The main subject of Brice Matthieussent’s novel Vengeance du traducteur [The Translator’s Revenge] is the relations between the translator and the author of the original. These relations are hierarchical and are illustrated with valuating elements depending on the place within a vertical structure, where the bottom — symbolic translator’s area — is perceived negatively, while the top, “belonging” to the author, is perceived positively. The present article contains an analysis of those aspects of the novel (typographic, stylistic and plot-related) that are involved in the construction of the picture of “spatial,” axiologically-marked relations between the translator and the author. Through this we want to demonstrate that the stereotypical approach to the translator as a figure subordinated to the author is just a starting point for showing a dynamic figure, full of contradictions, under constant tension between depression and elation, re-creator and at the same time creator (of the translation).

Keywords

EN

ASTERISK; BRICE MATTHIEUSSENT; NOTE; SPATIAL HIERARCHY; TRANSLATOR

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wroclawskiego
• Journal: Romanica Wratislaviensia
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 59
• Pages: 41-49

Contributors

author

Joanna Jakubowska-Cichoń