Origins and Legacies of Marcel Duhamel's Serie Noire

Alistair Charles Rolls,Clara Dominque Sitbon,Marie-Laure Jacqueline Vuaille-Barcan

Origins and Legacies of Marcel Duhamel's Serie Noire
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Brill
Country
NL
Published
11 January 2018
Pages
198
ISBN
9789004358973

Origins and Legacies of Marcel Duhamel’s Serie Noire

Alistair Charles Rolls,Clara Dominque Sitbon,Marie-Laure Jacqueline Vuaille-Barcan

In Origins and Legacies of Marcel Duhamel’s Serie Noire Alistair Rolls, Clara Sitbon and Marie-Laure Vuaille-Barcan counter the myths and received wisdom that are typically associated with this iconic French crime fiction series, namely: that it was born in Paris on a tide of postwar euphoria; that it initially consisted of translations of American hard-boiled classics by the likes of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler; and that the translations were rushed and rather approximate. Instead, an alternative vision of Duhamel’s translation practice is proposed, one based on a French tradition of auto-, or original , translation of ostensibly American crime fiction, and one that appropriates the source text in order to create an allegory of the target culture.

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