CONSIDÉRATIONS SUR LA RÉCEPTION SOCIOLOGIQUE DU ROMAN POLICIER SIMENONIEN DANS L’ESPACE CULTUREL ROUMAIN ET ANGLO-SAXON
CONSIDERATIONS ON THE SOCIOLOGICAL RECEPTION OF THE SIMENONIAN POLITICIAN ROMAN IN THE ROMANIAN AND ANGLO-SAXON CULTURAL SPACE

Summary/Abstract: Simenon's detective novel has recently raised interest in the Anglo-Saxon cultural space, stressing out the need of new English translations of Simenon's detective novels and putting in question his older translations, from 1960 to 1980 which privileged older translation methods such as adaptation. Recently, Penguin Publishing House started a new project of retranslating Simenon's detective novels, retranslations demanded by the changes of the Anglo-Saxon audience's reception. In Romania, Polirom Publishing House has started a project of reediting and translating Simenon's detective novels due to the economic, social and political changes which took place in our society after the Romanian Revolution in 1989. Our article focuses on a sociological reception of Simenon's works, inventorying, on one hand, the articles published in Romania in the communist period, as well as after 1989, and, on the other hand, we deal with the articles published in prestigious cultural publications such as Los Angeles Review of Books, The New York Times, Sunday Book Review, and The Sunday Times. Retranslating and reediting Simenon's detective novels in Romania as well as in Great Britain and United States represent a consequence of audience's interest for Simenon's detective fiction.

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