French literature through its Czech translations over the past 25 years

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.mut.325388

Keywords:

literary translation, bibliography of translations, book market, French literature, Czech literature

Abstract

The choice of literary works to be translated is always preceded by a radical selection within the vast field of the source literature. This article surveys the last 25 years of the Czech publishing landscape with the aim to show how this choice is made and how it is motivated. In order to analyze trends in the selection of works in the book market, we draw on a bibliographic corpus of Czech translations of French works published between 1990 and 2015. The list of authors and titles published illustrates the predominant trends in the Czech book market, allowing us to determine the different editorial strategies employed by Czech publishers and to identify shortcomings in the market. The comments on bibliographic resources are based on the concept of translation as a decision process (Levý, 1971), which resonates with the work of contemporary theorists writing about the sociology of literature (and translation), including P. Bourdieu (1992) and G. Sapiro (2008; 2014), and those writing on the circulation of works in the international literary and cultural field (P. Casanova, 1999).

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Author Biography

Jovanka Šotolová, Charles University

PhD in Translation Studies from Charles University in Prague and professor at the Institute of Translation Studies at the same university.

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Published

2016-12-12

How to Cite

Šotolová, J. (2016). French literature through its Czech translations over the past 25 years. Mutatis Mutandis. Revista Latinoamericana De Traducción, 9(2), 445–463. https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.mut.325388