Boris Vian’s Other Voices – Interlingual and Intermedial Translations of L’Écume des Jours and its Reception in the United Kingdom
Abstract Boris Vian was a French writer, translator, lyricist, playwright, and critic. Drawing on the model proposed by Andringa (2006), I look at the reception of Vian in the English polysystem. After giving reasons for his late success in France, I turn to the English context and analyse how his work was received by critics writing in British newspapers from 1940 to 1990, comparing his reception to that of related authors. This leads me to investigate the number of intermedial translations of his most famous novel, L’Écume des jours. While in her analysis Andringa does not consider the role played by intermedial translations or adaptations, I argue that a study of an author’s reception needs to go beyond the literary realm and pay attention to these other forms of dissemination, as they played a major role in the establishment of the novel in the English repertoire.
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Arnaud, Nöel. 1974. Le Dossier de l'affaire «J'irai cracher sur vos tombes». Paris: Christian Bourgois.
Aymali, Omer. 2014. «Algerian Genocide: the Sétif Massacre». World Bulletin 28 June 2014. Web.
Cameron, D. K. 1980. «The Empire Builders». The Stage, 6 November 1980.
Cattrysse, Patrick. 2014. Descriptive Adaptation Studies. Antwerp: Garant.
Chesterman, Andrew. «The Name and Nature of Translation Studies». Hermes - Journal of Language and Communication Studies 42 (13): 13-22. https://doi.org/10.7146/hjlcb.v22i42.96844
Chevrel, Yves et al. 2012. Histoire des traductions en langue française: xixe siècle (1815- 1914). Paris: Verdier.
Coen, A. and R. Schwartz. 1972. «Proscenium Production Criticism». Harrow Observer, 9 June 1972.
Coulter, Stephen. 1953. «Letter from Paris». Western Mail and South Wales News, 22 April 1953.
Coward, David. 2004. A History of French Literature: From Chanson de Geste to Cinema. Victoria: Blackwell.
Erll, Astrid. 2011. «Travelling Memory». Parallax 17 (4): 4-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/13534645.2011.605570
Even-Zohar, Itamar. 1990. «The Position of Translated Literature within the Literary Polysystem». Poetics Today 11 (1): 45-51. https://doi.org/10.2307/1772668
F. W. D. 1967. «The Empire Builders at the Oxford Playhouse». Birmingham Daily Post, 2 February 1967.
Foshko, Katherine. 2008. France's Russian Moment: Russian Émigrés in Interwar Paris and French Society. New Haven: Yale University.
Gentzler, Edwin. 2017. Translation and Re-Writing in the Age of Post Translation Studies. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315619194
Gouanvic, Jean-Marc. 2005. «A Bourdieusian Theory of Translation or the Coincidence of Practical Instances». The Translator 11 (2): 147-166. https://doi.org/10.1080/13556509.2005.10799196
Harvey, Elisabeth. 1970. «Stream of Conscience. A Steady Flow of Good Novels». Birmingham Daily Post, 4 July 1970.
Harvey, Elisabeth. 1971. «New Fiction». Birmingham Daily Post, 27 February 1971.
Heilbron, Johan and Giséle Sapiro. 2007. «Outline for a Sociology of Translation». In Constructing a Sociology of Translation, edited by Michaela Wolf and Alexandra Fukari, 93-107. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/btl.74.07hei
J. T. G. 1966. «Tea with the General». The Stage, 18 August 1966, 93-107.
Jordan, Matthew. 2002. «How Jazz Got Francisé: A Case Study in the Ongoing Construction of Cultural Identity». FCS 13: 187-208. https://doi.org/10.1177/095715580201300204
Kay, Sarah et al. 2003. A Short History of French Literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Kershaw, Angela. 2019. Translating War. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92087-0
Marriot, Raymond. 1962. «Another Notable Evening by the Royal Shakespeare». The Stage, 2 August 1962.
Marriot, Raymond. 1962. «Fine and Important or Clever Rubbish?». The Stage, 9 August 1962.
Marriot, Raymond. 1966. «The Generals Have a Tea Party Then Hide Away from War». The Stage, 17 November 1966.
Maylaerts, Reine et al. 2017. «Cultural Mediators in Cultural History: What Do We Learn from Studying Mediators' Complex Transfer Activities in Interwar Belgium?». In Doing Double Dutch. The International Circulation of Literature from the Low Countries, edited by Elke Brems et al., 51-75. Leuven: Leuven University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt21c4rzf.6
Monti, Giangilberto. 2018. Il Principe delle Notti di Saint-Germain-Des-Prés. Torino: Miraggi.
North, Michael. 2005. Camera Works. Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195173567.001.0001
O'Brien, E. D. 1963. «A Literary Lounger». Illustrated London News, 10 August 1963.
O'Dwyer, Clare. 1995. «Boris». The Stage, 19 October 1995. https://doi.org/10.1049/ee.1995.0078
Rolls, Alistair, John West-Sooby and Jean Fornasiero. 2014. «Boris Vian: A Life in Paradox». In If I Say If: The Poems and Short Stories of Boris Vian, edited by Alistair Rolls, John West-Sooby and Jean Fornasiero, 1-12. Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press. https://doi.org/10.20851/vian-if-01
Schoolcraft, Ralph. 2010. «Hard-Boiled French Style: Boris Vian Disguised as Vernon Sullivan (Authorship and Pseudonym)». South Central Review, 27 (1-2): 21-38. https://doi.org/10.1353/scr.0.0082
Sligo Champion. 1983. «French Circle». Sligo Champion, 22 April 1983.
Still, Judith. 2010. Derrida and Hospitality: Theory and Practice. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9780748640270.001.0001
The Tatler. 1949. «Priscilla in Paris. Stars at the Midnight Circus». The Tatler, 27 April 27 1949.
Trewin, John. 1962. «The Empire Builders at the New Arts». Birmingham Daily Post, 1 August 1962.
Trewin, John. 1962. «Making it up». Illustrated London News, 11 August 1962.
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Trewin, John. 1971. «A Glance at the Script». Birmingham Daily Post, 21 August 1971.
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Vian, Boris. 1997. J'irai cracher sur vos tombes. Paris: Le Livre de Poche.
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Montesi, V. (2019). Boris Vian’s Other Voices – Interlingual and Intermedial Translations of L’Écume des Jours and its Reception in the United Kingdom. 1616: Anuario De Literatura Comparada, 9, 151–172. https://doi.org/10.14201/161620199151172
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