<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> In the novel Vengeance du traducteur, Brice Matthieussent focuses on the translator-author relationship and tackles the question from the point of view of the translator’s note. The author is eventually murdered by the translator out of revenge, not only in symbolical terms but also in literal terms. A given aesthetics of translation is thereby conveyed, going through stages of appropriation, digestion, transportation and transgression of text and translation rules, which nonetheless does not necessarily reflect the author’s genuine stand, a famous translator himself. </p></abstract>

In the novel Vengeance du traducteur, Brice Matthieussent focuses on the translator-author relationship and tackles the question from the point of view of the translator’s note. The author is eventually murdered by the translator out of revenge, not only in symbolical terms but also in literal terms. A given aesthetics of translation is thereby conveyed, going through stages of appropriation, digestion, transportation and transgression of text and translation rules, which nonetheless does not necessarily reflect the author’s genuine stand, a famous translator himself.

Mineur de fond ou chirurgien esthétique ? Traducteur et traduction dans Vengeance du traducteur de Brice Matthieussent

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In the novel Vengeance du traducteur, Brice Matthieussent focuses on the translator-author relationship and tackles the question from the point of view of the...

Mineur de fond ou chirurgien esthétique ? Traducteur et traduction dans Vengeance du traducteur de Brice Matthieussent

Published Online: May 28, 2014

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/tran-2014-0025

Keywords
Translator-author relationship, author’s death, translator’s note, appropriation, transgression

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Mineur de fond ou chirurgien esthétique ? Traducteur et traduction dans Vengeance du traducteur de Brice Matthieussent

Published Online: May 28, 2014

Page range: -

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/tran-2014-0025

KeywordsTranslator-author relationship, author’s death, translator’s note, appropriation, transgression

© 2014

This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Keywords
Translator-author relationship, author’s death, translator’s note, appropriation, transgression