Cover not available

Article published In: FORUM
Vol. 17:1 (2019) ► pp.62–76

Get fulltext from our e-platform
JBE logo with link
PDF logo with download linkDownload PDF
authorization required

A Worldwide Web of Words

Queneau Redux

 | Sapienza University of Rome
Published online: 26 July 2019
DOI logo with link
https://doi.org/10.1075/forum.18003.war
Abstract
The analogy of a réseau or network is one of the most powerful of our age and, while often represented as a neat set of interconnections with all points linked to others in geometrical patterns, the reality can be quite different: more useful is the Rhizome analogy, modelled on plants such as orchids and bamboo, with no centres and no defined boundaries; the Internet, for example, is a profoundly rhizomatic structure.
The analysis presented is that of a ‘traditional’ printed text, Raymond Queneau’s Exercices de style, itself a study in rewriting, and examines the ST within its intertextual web, touching on its interlingual translations into English and Italian, its intersemiotic translations into song, comic book and theatre work, and some of the countless paratextual elements surrounding the Exercices, with the ultimate objective of analysing how all these elements cannot but now influence our reception of the original source text.
Résumé
L’analogie du réseau est l’une des plus puissantes de notre époque et, bien que souvent représenté comme un ensemble soigné d’interconnexions où tous les points sont liés entre eux dans un motif géométrique, la réalité peut être très différente: plus utile est l’analogie du Rhizome, sur le modèle de plantes telles que les orchidées et le bambou, sans centres et sans limites définies; Internet, par exemple, est une structure profondément rhizomatique.
La présente analyse porte sur un texte imprimé ‘traditionel’, les Exercices de style de Raymond Queneau, une étude de la reécriture, et examine le texte source dans son réseau intertextuel: ses traductions interlinguales en anglais et en italien, ses traductions intersémiotiques en chanson, bande dessinée et pièce téatrale, et un certain nombre des éléments paratextuels entournant les Exercices, pour en arriver à analyser comment tous ses éléments sont censés influencer la reception du texte source original.
Article outline
  • Binary oppositions
  • A textual web
  • Bringing the two together
  • Queneau in the web
  • The paratextual network
  • Translated connections
  • Loose(r) connections
  • Towards the “further course” of the network
  • Notes
  • References
References (42)
References
Bassnett, Susan. 2014. Translation Studies. 4th. London: Routledge.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Berman, Antoine. 1984. L’épreuve de l’étranger. Paris: Gallimard.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Buzelin, Hélène, and Deborah Folaron (eds.), 2007. “Translation and Network Studies.” Meta 52 (4): 603–858. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Carr, Nicholas. 2010. The Shallows: How the internet is changing the way we think, read and remember. London: Atlantic Boooks.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Deleuze, Gilles, and Félix Guattari. 1980. Mille plateaux. Paris: Les Éditions de minuit.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Disegni, Stefano, and Massimo Caviglia. 1994. Esercizi di stile. Milan: Mondadori.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Eco, Umberto. 2002. “On Translating Queneau’s Exercices de style into Italian.” [orig. Introduzione] Translated by Mary Wardle. In The Translator 81: 221–239. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
. 2014. “The Encyclopaedia as Labyrinth.” In Networks, ed. by Lars Bang Larsen, 30–31. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Eliot, T. S. 1986. “Tradition and the Individual Talent”. In Selected Essays, 13–22. London: Faber and Faber.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Even-Zohar, Itamar. 1979. “Polysystem Theory.” In Poetics Today 11: 287–310. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
. 1990. “Polysystem Studies”. In Poetics Today 11(1): 1–268.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Federici, Federico. 2009. Translation as Stylistic Evolution: Italo Calvino Creative Translator of Raymond Queneau. Amsterdam: Rodopi. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Froeliger, Nicolas. 2008. “De l’aval vers l’amont: la rétroaction en traduction.” In Au-delà de la lettre et de l’esprit: pour une redéfinition des concepts de source et de cible, ed. by Nadia D’Amelio, 133–145. Mons: Editions du CIPA.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Genette, Gérard. 1997. Paratexts: Thresholds of Interpretation [orig. Seuils ]. Translated by Jane E. Lewin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Giedd, Jay N. 2012. “The Digital Revolution and Adolescent Brain Evolution”. In Journal of Adolescent Health 511: 101–105. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Gil-Bardají, Anna, Pilar Orero, and Sara Rovira, eds. 2012. Translation Peripheries – Paratextual Elements in Translation. Bern: Peter Lang.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Goncharova, Yuliya, and Philippe Lacour. 2011. “TraduXio : nouvelle expérience en traduction littéraire.” Traduire (225): 86–100. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Hofstadter, Douglas. 2009. Translator, Trader. An essay on the pleasantly pervasive paradoxes of translation. London: Basic Books.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Hutchinson, Linda. 2006. A Theory of Adaptation. London: Routledge. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Jakobson, Roman. 1959. “On Linguistic Aspects of Translation.” In On Translation, ed. by Reuben A. Brower, 232–239. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Jauss, Hans Robert. 1982. Towards an Aesthetic of Reception. Translated by Timothy Bahti. Brighton: Harvester Press.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Madden, Matt. 2006. 99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style. London: Jonathan Cape.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
. 2006. 99 exercices de style [orig. 99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style]. Translated by Charlotte Miquel. Paris: L’association.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Marais, Kobus. 2014. Translation Theory and Development Studies: A Complexity Theory Approach. London: Routledge. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Newmark, Peter. 1981. Approaches to Translation. Oxford: Pergamon Press.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Nida, Eugene A. 1964. Toward a Science of Translating. Leiden: E.J. Brill.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Queneau, Raymond. 1947. Exercices de style. Paris: Gallimard.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
. 1958. Exercises in Style [orig. Exercices de style]. Translated by Barbara Wright. London: Gaberbocchus Press.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
. 1963. Exercices de style accompagnés de 33 exercices de style parallèles peints, dessinés ou sculptés par Carelman et de 99 exercices de style typogaphiques de Massin. Paris: Gallimard.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
. 1965. Les fleurs bleues. Paris: Gallimard.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
. 1967. I fiori blu [orig. Les fleurs bleues]. Translated by Italo Calvino. Turin: Einaudi.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
. (1981/ 2nd edition 2012). Exercises in Style [orig. Exercices de style]. Translated by Barbara Wright. New York: New Directions Books.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
. 1983. 3rd ed. 2008. Esercizi di stile [orig. Exercices de style]. Translated by Umberto Eco. Turin: Einaudi.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Raw, Laurence, ed. 2012. Translation, Adaptation and Transformation. London: Bloomsbury.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Schleiermacher, Friedrich. 2012. “On the Different Methods of Translating.” In The Translation Studies Reader, ed. by Lawrence Venuti, 43–63. London: Routledge.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Topia, André. 1990. “Finnegans Wake: La traduction parasitée: Étude de trois traductions des dernières pages de Finnegans Wake.” Palimpsestes 41: 45–61. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Toury, Gideon. 1980. In Search of a Theory of Translation. Tel Aviv: The Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics, Tel Aviv University.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Tyulenev, Sergey. 2014. Translation and Society. London: Routledge. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Venuti, Lawrence. 1995. The Translator’s Invisibility. London: Routledge. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Wardle, Mary. 2015. “Umberto Eco and the Model Translator.” In About Eco, ed. by Giuliana Adamo, and Marco Sonzogni, 152–167. Novi Ligure: Edizioni Joker.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Yuste Frías, José. 2015. “Paratraducción: la traducción de los márgenes, al margen de la traducción.” D.E.L.T.A. 311: 317–347.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Mobile Menu Logo with link to supplementary files background Layer 1 prag Twitter_Logo_Blue