INTERFÉRENCES LITTÉRAIRES EUROPÉENNES À LA NAISSANCE DU ROMAN ÉPISTOLAIRE FRANÇAIS

• Authors: Krisztina Kaló

Title variants

EN

EUROPEAN LITERARY INFLUENCES ON THE BIRTH OF THE FRENCH EPISTOLARY NOVEL

• Languages of publication: FR

Abstracts

EN

It is a well-known fact that the beginnings of the French epistolary novel go back to the second half of the 17th century. The literal translations and the free interpretations of some major or minor foreign novels not only facilitated the birth of the genre in France, but it seems that they also determined its success during the 18th century. Having studied the sources of some French masterpieces, such as Persian Letters of Montesquieu and Julie or New Héloïse of J. J. Rousseau, we found one or more correspondences translated from European languages, especially from Italian, Spanish and English. In this article we trace back the most important literary influences in Europe in the field of epistolary fiction to show how these interferences contributed to the birth of the genre in France.

Keywords

EN

epistolary novel; translation; literary influences

• Publisher: Inter Litteras Research Centre, STEFAN CEL MARE University, Suceava, Romania; STEFAN CEL MARE Publishing House
• Journal: Concordia Discors vs Discordia Concors: Researches into Comparative Literature, Contrastive Linguistics, Cross-Cultural and Translation Strategies
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 1
• Pages: 47-56

Contributors

author

Krisztina Kaló

• Károly Eszterházy College, Eger, Hungary