FrançaisConference : National literary fields and European space
Setting-up a new literary and political position: the impact of the translation on the Eastern European writers’ career
Author/s : Ioana Popa
The translation contributes to the internationalization of a literary field and can reveal the recognition of a foreign author. In some specific historical contexts, it also allows the banned writers to continue their literary career despite of the censorship and the repression exercised by an authoritarian political power. More particularly, a translated writer can shift gradually his literary position towards a foreign literary field. This paper will discuss these social logics by analysing Milan Kundera’s career, a Czech born writer which has been translated into French, for the first time, in 1968. During his exile in France, he started his writing in the language of his adopting country. Since then, he was recognized as a genuine French writer. The analysis of Kundera’s career and of his positions in the Czech and the French literary fields reveals how a writer can set up a new position for himself in a foreign literary field, as well as its social, intellectual, linguistic and political determinants. This paper will also point out the reception of Kundera’s literary work in France and, finally, how politicized forms of recognition can facilitate or, on the contrary, slow down the “re-nationalisation” of a literary position.
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