Écho des études romanes, 2012 (vol. 8), issue 2

À propos de quelques glissements de sens rocambolesquesFrench

A note on some unbelievable semantic shifts

Zuzana HILDENBRAND

Écho des études romanes 2012, 8(2):5-13 | DOI: 10.32725/eer.2012.021  

The paper deals with the semantic content of three German loan words rocambole, schlass and schnorchel. These three lexical units belong to a set of lexical Germanisms, which have been subjected to a frequency analysis in the French modern written language and then to research as to what extent they are known and used by today's native speakers. These lexical units evince small shifts of meaning compared with their definitions which appear traditionally in the French monolingual dictionaries.

Style et registre de langue en traductionFrench

Style and register in translation

Raluca-Nicoleta BALAŢCHI

Écho des études romanes 2012, 8(2):15-25 | DOI: 10.32725/eer.2012.022  

In this paper, we seek to assess the difficulties of translating register in literary discourse, on the basis of a corpus constituted by the translation and retranslation of Marguerite Duras' Moderato Cantabile into Romanian. Translating register is considered by most Translation Studies scholars as a primary criterion in assessing the quality of a translation. To what extent can the translator preserve the register features when rendering the text into the target language? How far do his/her subjective choices influence the cultural identity of the translated text? Does the practice of retranslation bring essential changes from this point of view?

Bellaud de la Bellaudièra et les troubadours de Jehan de Nostredame ?French

Bellaud de la Bellaudièra and the Jehan de Nostredame's troubadours

Josef PROKOP

Écho des études romanes 2012, 8(2):27-35 | DOI: 10.32725/eer.2012.023  

Lois Bellaud de la Bellaudiera (1543-1588?) was one of the most outstanding Provencal poets of his time. Many scholars, such as Robert Lafont, claimed to see in him an important representative of language revival in the Provence region. In this context arises the question as to why Bellaud did not reflect neither use a reference to the antiquity of troubadour poetry, their literarily consecrated koiné, nor its traditional orthography, if he wanted to elevate and literarily re-establish his native language. That's despite the fact that the famous troubadour's past was only very recently restored by Jehan de Nostredame (1507-1577?) with his troubadour...

Entre désir, interdit et nostalgie : aspects du dépit amoureux à l’aube du vingtième siècle chez Alain-Fournier et RadiguetFrench

Between the desired, the forbidden and the nostalgic: aspects of amorous spite at the dawn of the twentieth century in Alain-Fournier and Radiguet

Dominique LANNI

Écho des études romanes 2012, 8(2):37-45 | DOI: 10.32725/eer.2012.024  

Feelings which arise from heartaches have inspired numerous literary works, novels particularly. This phenomenon was probably at its height during the second half of the nineteenth century. Although the theme of unrequited love seemed to be hackneyed at the beginning of the twentieth century, Alain Fournier and Raymond Radiguet gave it a new lease by proposing different but original writing modes to present the former through nostalgia in Le Grand Meaulnes and the latter through constraint in Le Bal du Comte d'Orgel. This article aims to show how this was achieved.

La memoria alla barocca ne L’isola del giorno prima di Umberto EcoItalian

Baroque memory in Umberto Eco's The Island of the Day Before

Agnieszka PIWOWARSKA

Écho des études romanes 2012, 8(2):47-55 | DOI: 10.32725/eer.2012.025  

In his third novel The Island of the Day Before (L'isola del giorno prima) Umberto Eco narrates a story of an unusual castaway named Roberto who - instead of being on a desert island - finishes up on an abandoned (but only at first sight) ship. The article aims to analyze how the book's main character, during his loneliness, reminisces about events from his past. And because the novel is set in the Baroque, Roberto's memories respect the spirit of that time : numerous flashbacks are evoked by unexpected metaphors that link very distant things. The ship, which is for a young man a cumbersome prison, becomes a real Theatre of Memory, according...

L’Ange d'Avrigue de Francesco Biamonti : esquisse d’une écriture picturaleFrench

Francesco Biamonti's L'Ange d'Avrigue: sketching a pictorial writing style

Martine BOVO-ROMOEUF

Écho des études romanes 2012, 8(2):57-67 | DOI: 10.32725/eer.2012.026  

In L'angelo di Avrigue by Francesco Biamonti, the Ligurian landscape is the objective correlative of the vanishing of a particular civilization, the disappearance of a way of 'being in the world'. This complex and stylized landscape corresponds to an intimate geography: it is a reflection of the mind which is represented through pages drenched in light, through the variations of the day's luminosity, the chromatic nuances of sky and clouds observed in every moment of the day, from the pearly dawns till the starry evenings and the opaque nights.L'angelo di Avrigue is not a novel on landscape but it is rather a landscape-novel, i.e. a novel...

La Vérité, jusqu’à la faute. Une poétique de l’entrelacementFrench

La Vérité, jusqu’à la faute. A poetics of intertwining

Abderhaman MESSAOUDI

Écho des études romanes 2012, 8(2):69-77 | DOI: 10.32725/eer.2012.027  

This article aims to show that La Vérité, jusqu’à la faute by Jean-Paul Michel presents a poetics of interlace. That implies the intertwining of perspectives and viewpoints that enables them to increase in complexity from both literary and philosophical viewpoints.

Ligia-Stela Florea, Catherine Fuchs : Dictionnaire des verbes du français actuel. Constructions, emplois, synonymesFrench

Cécile BRULEY

Écho des études romanes 2012, 8(2):79-82  

Kateřina Drsková : České překlady francouzské literatury (1960-1969)French

Zuzana RAKOVÁ

Écho des études romanes 2012, 8(2):82-84  

Le charme discret d’un grand romaniste : Jaroslav Fryčer (*1932 - †2006)French

The discreet charm of a great Romanist: Jaroslav Fryčer (*1932 - †2006)

Francis CLAUDON

Écho des études romanes 2012, 8(2):85-86