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Philip Roth's Professor of Desire in the Light of Its French Translation

  • Velichka D. Ivanova

Date Published:

7 June, 2013

Abstract:

The article analyzes Henri Robillot's 1979 translation of Philip Roth's The Professor of Desire (1977) into French. It demonstrates the manner in which apparently minor stylistic choices, slight omissions, and more generally the stylistic treatment of male and female characters in the translation constitute a strategy of excessive interpretation and gender politics traced back to the critical reception of Roth's work. Through the analysis of the translation, the article aims to improve the analytical perception of the novel.

 

June 2013: Velichka D. Ivanova earned her PhD in Comparative Literature from the University Paris 3-Sorbonne Nouvelle, France. She is the author of Fiction, utopie, histoire: Essai sur Philip Roth et Milan Kundera (2010) and of Architecture d’un rêve: Étude narrative d’American Pastoral (2012). She has edited the collection Reading Philip Roth’s American Pastoral (2011) and is guest co-editor, with Rémi Astruc, of the special issue “Philip Roth, American Pastoral” of the American Studies journal Cercles (2013).

 

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Volume 11, Issue 2
Last updated on 04/15/2020