Post a Comment Print Share on Facebook

A new translation of Emma, ​​singular police investigation signed Jane Austen

We already knew that the feat of translating Jane Austen without betraying her required marrying the delicacy of a lacemaker with the precision of understanding of a Baudelaire.

- 70 reads.

A new translation of Emma, ​​singular police investigation signed Jane Austen

We already knew that the feat of translating Jane Austen without betraying her required marrying the delicacy of a lacemaker with the precision of understanding of a Baudelaire. Faced with this mountain to climb, some of the best adapters of their time had damaged their pen.

Admirers of the great English woman of letters should now be delighted: Clémentine Beauvais, recipient of the Young Writer Prize in 2010 (L'Étrange cas des deux amours by Jean-Baptiste Robert), has set herself the noble task of (re)translate into the language of Molière, Emma, ​​a nugget of the novelist published anonymously in 1815.

A perfectionist as hell, Clémentine Beauvais has planned to tackle the famous Reasons and Sentiments (1811) and Pride and Prejudices (1813) next. If she started with Emma, ​​it's because, according to her own admission, the heroine is as "funny as she is powerfully intelligent". This work, a police investigation, will prove to be unique in Jane Austen's gesture.

Emma d'Autumn de Wilde in 2020, after Jane Austen, with Anya Taylor-Joy, Johnny Flynn...

Baribal editions launched on April 12 a crowdfunding campaign on KissKissBankBank. The goal? Reach 500 pre-orders at 25 euros to produce the first edition of Emma, ​​which will be printed next fall. Clémentine Beauvais must, in the coming months, tackle the other great works of the novelist, who with a particular genius of which she held the secret, will have been able to portray with realism and irony the English mores of her time and her social class. , the English “gentry”.

Avatar
Your Name
Post a Comment
Characters Left:
Your comment has been forwarded to the administrator for approval.×
Warning! Will constitute a criminal offense, illegal, threatening, offensive, insulting and swearing, derogatory, defamatory, vulgar, pornographic, indecent, personality rights, damaging or similar nature in the nature of all kinds of financial content, legal, criminal and administrative responsibility for the content of the sender member / members are belong.