Lu à l’ouest, le crime de l’est a du lest
Eastern Crimes in French
Author(s): Paul BletonSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Translation Studies, Globalization
Published by: Universitatea Babeş-Bolyai
Keywords: Eastern Noir; Western Eastern Noir; Translation; French Readership; Globalization;
Summary/Abstract: Based on a corpus of Eastern and Western crime novels dealing with crime in the former Eastern Bloc countries, three issues are examined: the globalization of the crime fiction market through French translation and a few of its deterritorializing consequences for writers and readers; the a priori pragmatic- semantic configurations informing the act of reading (culture of fiction, culture of the author and culture of the reader); the symbolic displacement of the disappeared Iron Curtain towards two types of thematic border: one by excess (the perpetuated over-border) and the other by default (the checkpoint and the confines).
Journal: Caietele Echinox
- Issue Year: 2022
- Issue No: 43
- Page Range: 161-171
- Page Count: 11
- Language: French
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