Lu à l’ouest, le crime de l’est a du lest

Based on a corpus of Eastern and Western crime novels dealing with crime in the former Eastern Bloc countries, three issues are examined: the globalization of the crime fiction market through French translation and a few of its deterritorializing consequences for writers and readers; the a priori p...

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Main Author: Paul Bleton
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca 2022-12-01
Series:Caietele Echinox
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Online Access:http://caieteleechinox.lett.ubbcluj.ro/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/CaieteEchinox43-2022-p.161-171.pdf
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Summary:Based on a corpus of Eastern and Western crime novels dealing with crime in the former Eastern Bloc countries, three issues are examined: the globalization of the crime fiction market through French translation and a few of its deterritorializing consequences for writers and readers; the a priori pragmaticsemantic configurations informing the act of reading (culture of fiction, culture of the author and culture of the reader); the symbolic displacement of the disappeared Iron Curtain towards two types of thematic border: one by excess (the perpetuated over-border) and the other by default (the checkpoint and the confines).
ISSN:1582-960X