Marie-Laure Vuaille-Barcan – författare

This book explores the intersection of a number of academic areas of study that are all, individually, of growing importance: translation studies, crime fiction and world literature. The scholars included here are leaders in one or more of these areas. The frame of this volume is imagological; its focus is on the ways in which national allegories are constructed and deconstructed, encompassing descriptions of national characteristics as they play out at the level of the local or the individual as well as broader, political analyses. Its corpus, crime fiction, is shown to be a privileged site for writing the national narrative, and often in ways that are more complex and dynamic than is suggested by the genre’s much-cited role as vehicle for a new realism. Finally, these two areas are problematised through the lens of translation, which is a crucial player in both the development of crime fiction and the formation, rather than simply the interlingual transfer, of national allegory. In this volume national allegories, and the crime novels in which they emerge, are shown to be eminently versatile, foundationally plural texts that promote critical rewriting as opposed to sites for fixing meaning. This book was originally published as a special issue of The Translator.

This book explores the intersection of a number of academic areas of study that are all, individually, of growing importance: translation studies, crime fiction and world literature. The scholars included here are leaders in one or more of these areas. The frame of this volume is imagological; its focus is on the ways in which national allegories are constructed and deconstructed, encompassing descriptions of national characteristics as they play out at the level of the local or the individual as well as broader, political analyses. Its corpus, crime fiction, is shown to be a privileged site for writing the national narrative, and often in ways that are more complex and dynamic than is suggested by the genre’s much-cited role as vehicle for a new realism. Finally, these two areas are problematised through the lens of translation, which is a crucial player in both the development of crime fiction and the formation, rather than simply the interlingual transfer, of national allegory. In this volume national allegories, and the crime novels in which they emerge, are shown to be eminently versatile, foundationally plural texts that promote critical rewriting as opposed to sites for fixing meaning. This book was originally published as a special issue of The Translator.

Le nom de Boris Vian est connu de tous, que ce soit en tant qu’auteur, jazzman, pataphysicien ou chanteur. Pourtant, depuis le colloque de Cerisy en 1976 et la publication de ses œuvres complètes dans la prestigieuse collection La Pléiade en 2010, il semblerait que, à quelques exceptions près, les études universitaires se soient spécialisées dans des analyses réduites à un seul genre et toujours empreintes d’éléments biographiques. Ce volume propose de déroger à la règle et d’adopter de nouvelles perspectives sur l’identité multiple de l’œuvre de Vian. En privilégiant un angle interdisciplinaire, nos contributeurs en révèlent la transmédialité, grâce à l’apport de leurs spécialités respectives. Cette approche innovante propose des pistes pour la recherche vianienne qui renouvelleront l’interprétation de l’œuvre de cet auteur protéiforme.