Traduire l’argot français ou le dernier des Sullivan

• Authors: Szabó Dávid

Title variants

EN

TRANSLATING FRENCH SLANG OR THE LAST OF THE SULLIVANS

• Languages of publication: FR

Abstracts

EN

Slang is certainly one of the aspects of language that are the most difficult to translate, even if we do not agree with those who consider language or even slang as untranslatable. In this paper we will present the case of the Hungarian translation of BorisVian’s last novel published under the pseudonym of Vernon Sullivan, Elles serendent pascompte. The main the difficulty for the translator consisted in expressing in contemporary Hungarian the essentially playful French general slang used by Vian towards the end of the 1940’s.

Keywords

FR

argot; traduction; intraduisibilité; Boris Vian

EN

slang; translation; untranslatability; Boris Vian

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts, Czech Republic
• Journal: Svět literatury – Časopis pro novodobé literatury (World of Literature – Journal for Modern Literatures)
• Year: 2015
• Volume: Special Issue: Le monde de la litérrature
• Pages: 194-204

Contributors

author

Szabó Dávid

• Centre Interuniversitaire d’Etudes Françaises/Département d’Etudes Françaises, Faculté des Lettres, Université Eötvös Loránd (ELTE)