Conserver ou censurer : les choix d’un traducteur français de Jonathan Swift au dix-neuvième siècle
Abstract :
The following is a study of a nineteenth-century French translation of Gulliver’s Travels, undertaken by a teacher named Gausseron for the benefit of the younger readership. Gausseron’s linguistic expertise is undeniable but he is led by his original bias to bowdlerize Swift’s text: alterations and deletions (far from being systematic and coherent) appear most numerous where scatology and sexuality are concerned. Surprisingly, however, violence — whether physical or mental — is scrupulously rendered. Gausseron’s selective sense of propriety and decency results, therefore, in a version of Swift’s outrageous masterpiece, that is both lopsided as regards indelicacy and literarily mutilating.
Published : 2008-07-11
Citation
Françoise Lapraz-Severino, « Conserver ou censurer : les choix d’un traducteur français de Jonathan Swift au dix-neuvième siècle », Cycnos, 2008-07-11. URL : http://epi-revel.univ-cotedazur.fr/publication/item/364