Origins and Legacies of Marcel Duhamel’s Série Noire

Download or read book Origins and Legacies of Marcel Duhamel’s Série Noire written by Alistair Charles Rolls and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-12-18 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Origins and Legacies of Marcel Duhamel’s Série 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.