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Nouvelle publication : Claire Ellender

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Claire Ellender, Preserving Polyphonies. Translating the Writings of Claude Sarraute,

Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, Peter Lang (coll. “New Trends in Translation Studies”, 12), 2013. 240 p.
ISBN : 978-3-0343-0940-0.

 

To date, translation theory offers no satisfactory response to the multidimensional challenge of rerendering postmodern texts. As the existence of linguistic and cultural plurality in these writings is now widely acknowledged, many theorists recognise the impossibility of achieving complete equivalence in translation. If the fragmented, decentred, postmodern source text (ST) is to be rerendered in the target language (TL), a process of ‘rewriting’ is deemed necessary. Nevertheless, such an approach, if taken too far, may not always be the most appropriate.

Focusing on the French journalist and novelist Claude Sarraute, whose postmodern writings offer a suitable body of texts for study, this book seeks to determine effective means by which the translator can first read and analyse postmodern STs and subsequently preserve their intricacies in the TL. To provide an original response to this challenge grounded in both theoretical and practical evidence, the author refers to the work of the Bakhtin Circle; concepts from literary theory, stylistics and translation theory; and translations of a body of texts as variegated in character as those of Sarraute. Using the approach which she recommends, the author then explains how she rerenders in English a collection of Sarraute’s polyphonic writings.

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OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante :
Florence THILL (29 octobre 2013). Nouvelle publication : Claire Ellender. STL- ACTUALITES. Consulté le 12 mai 2025 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/ukte


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