Alistair Rolls is Senior Lecturer in French Studies at the University of Newcastle, Australia. His work has focused principally on twentieth-century French literature, including Boris Vian, Existentialism and crime fiction. With Marie-Laure Vuaille-Barcan he is currently working on an analysis of the translation of Australian crime fiction into French.Marie-Laure Vuaille-Barcan is Senior Lecturer in French Studies at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Her research interests include translation theory and second-language acquisition.

• Contents: Alistair Rolls/Murray Pratt: Introduction: Unwrapping the French Paratext – David Gascoigne: Paratext Rules OK – Gemma Le Mesurier: Reading Against the Author: Layers of Impotence in Stendhal’s Armance – Alistair Rolls: The Striptease at the Dead Heart of Douglas Kennedy’s Piège nuptial, Or How to be a bit French around the Edges – Marie-Laure Vuaille-Barcan: Douglas Kennedy, or an American in Paris: Paratextual Strategies and ‘Acclimatization’ of the Translated Text – Murray Pratt: ‘Un jeu avec le je’: Frédéric Beigbeder and the Value of the Authorial Paratext – Hélène Jaccomard: The Paratext of Yasmina Reza’s « Art »: Overflowing the Image – Jean Fornasiero/John West-Sooby: Covering up: Translating the Art of Australian Crime Fiction into French – Françoise Grauby: Writing (Learning about): French Writing Manuals and the Peritext – Alistair Rolls/Marie-Laure Vuaille-Barcan: Paratextuality, Self-Alterity and the Becoming-Text.

Alistair Rolls is Senior Lecturer in French Studies at the University of Newcastle, Australia. His work has focused principally on twentieth-century French literature, including Boris Vian, Existentialism and crime fiction. With Marie-Laure Vuaille-Barcan he is currently working on an analysis of the translation of Australian crime fiction into French.Marie-Laure Vuaille-Barcan is Senior Lecturer in French Studies at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Her research interests include translation theory and second-language acquisition.

• Contents: Alistair Rolls/Murray Pratt: Introduction: Unwrapping the French Paratext – David Gascoigne: Paratext Rules OK – Gemma Le Mesurier: Reading Against the Author: Layers of Impotence in Stendhal’s Armance – Alistair Rolls: The Striptease at the Dead Heart of Douglas Kennedy’s Piège nuptial, Or How to be a bit French around the Edges – Marie-Laure Vuaille-Barcan: Douglas Kennedy, or an American in Paris: Paratextual Strategies and ‘Acclimatization’ of the Translated Text – Murray Pratt: ‘Un jeu avec le je’: Frédéric Beigbeder and the Value of the Authorial Paratext – Hélène Jaccomard: The Paratext of Yasmina Reza’s « Art »: Overflowing the Image – Jean Fornasiero/John West-Sooby: Covering up: Translating the Art of Australian Crime Fiction into French – Françoise Grauby: Writing (Learning about): French Writing Manuals and the Peritext – Alistair Rolls/Marie-Laure Vuaille-Barcan: Paratextuality, Self-Alterity and the Becoming-Text.

Alistair Rolls is Senior Lecturer in French Studies at the University of Newcastle, Australia. His work has focused principally on twentieth-century French literature, including Boris Vian, Existentialism and crime fiction. With Marie-Laure Vuaille-Barcan he is currently working on an analysis of the translation of Australian crime fiction into French.Marie-Laure Vuaille-Barcan is Senior Lecturer in French Studies at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Her research interests include translation theory and second-language acquisition.

• Contents: Alistair Rolls/Murray Pratt: Introduction: Unwrapping the French Paratext – David Gascoigne: Paratext Rules OK – Gemma Le Mesurier: Reading Against the Author: Layers of Impotence in Stendhal’s Armance – Alistair Rolls: The Striptease at the Dead Heart of Douglas Kennedy’s Piège nuptial, Or How to be a bit French around the Edges – Marie-Laure Vuaille-Barcan: Douglas Kennedy, or an American in Paris: Paratextual Strategies and ‘Acclimatization’ of the Translated Text – Murray Pratt: ‘Un jeu avec le je’: Frédéric Beigbeder and the Value of the Authorial Paratext – Hélène Jaccomard: The Paratext of Yasmina Reza’s « Art »: Overflowing the Image – Jean Fornasiero/John West-Sooby: Covering up: Translating the Art of Australian Crime Fiction into French – Françoise Grauby: Writing (Learning about): French Writing Manuals and the Peritext – Alistair Rolls/Marie-Laure Vuaille-Barcan: Paratextuality, Self-Alterity and the Becoming-Text.