MERCIER ET/AND CAMIER: Un voyage de découverte linguistique est-il traduisible?

Document type :

Compte-rendu et recension critique d'ouvrage

Title :

MERCIER ET/AND CAMIER: Un voyage de découverte linguistique est-il traduisible?

Author(s) :

Penet, Helen [Auteur]

Centre d'Études en Civilisations, Langues et Lettres Étrangères - ULR 4074 [CECILLE]
Université de Lille

Journal title :

Samuel Beckett Today/aujourd'hui

Publisher :

Rodopi

Publication date :

2006

ISSN :

0927-3131

HAL domain(s) :

Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Littératures

English abstract : [en]

This articles studies the English translation of Beckett's first French-language novel, Mercier and Camier, in order to ascertain whether the linguistic discovery it represents was translatable into English. A close analysis ...
Show more >This articles studies the English translation of Beckett's first French-language novel, Mercier and Camier, in order to ascertain whether the linguistic discovery it represents was translatable into English. A close analysis of how Beckett translated his very markedly oral French reveals how Beckett uses for the first time, Hiberno-English structures and words, as if the use of a foreign language had allowed him to rediscover his mother tongue as he has never used it before.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Popular science :

Non

Collections :

Centre d'Études en Civilisations Langues et Lettres Étrangères (CECILLE) - ULR 4074

Source :

Harvested from HAL