Faulkner in France

Bibliographic Data

ID19039480
AuthorsGisèle Sapiro (0000-0003-2791-186X, CNRSÉcole des hautes études en sciences sociales)
Year2016
Volume1
Issue3
Pages391-411
Publication date2016-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of World Literature (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2405-6472 • E-ISSN: 2405-6480
PublisherBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/24056480-00103007
OpenAlexW2499561158
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited6

In the early 1930s, when he started being translated into French, Faulkner was an unknown author in the transnational literary field. Questioning the role of intermediaries—publishers, translators, critics, authors—in the circulation of literary works and in the making of world literature, this article focuses on the role of the French publisher Gallimard in the symbolic recognition of Faulkner. Based on the publisher’s archives, the study examines the editorial strategies implemented in order to introduce a foreign author in a country that occupied a central position in the transnational literary field, at a time American literature just began arising interest: selection and order of publication of the works, prefaces by famous French authors (Malraux), publication in literary journals. These prefaces as well as the first reviews of Faulkner’s novels also reveal different strategies of importation, from transfer of symbolic capital to subverting the local literary field (Sartre)

Art · French Literature · Literary criticism · Literature · Sociology · World literature · Computer Science · French Literature and Poetry · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Literature and Culture Studies

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