Reception In France Research Articles

A REVIEW OF THE HISTORY OF THE TRANSLATION OF EDGAR ALLAN POE’S WORKS INTO THE FRENCH LANGUAGE IN THE XIX CENTURY

The literary legacy of Edgar Allan Poe transcends borders, captivating readers worldwide with his haunting tales of mystery, macabre, and psychological depth. Among the numerous languages into which Poe’s works have been translated, the French language occupies a prominent place, reflecting the enduring fascination of French readers with his oeuvre. This paper undertakes a comprehensive examination of the history of French translations of Poe’s works made in the 19th century and the special passion French artists had for the American writer. Through a meticulous overview of archival materials, literary criticism, and translation studies, this research illuminates the evolution of French translations of Poe’s writings, shedding light on the cultural, linguistic, and editorial factors that have shaped their reception in France. It explores the pivotal role played by translators, such as Charles Baudelaire and Stephan Mallarmé, in introducing Poe to the French literary scene and examines the strategies employed to render his unique style and thematic preoccupations into French. In analyzing the translations, we have drawn on some archival material from the French press, literary criticism, and a body of existing research on the subject. This study considers the ways in which French translators have interpreted and reinterpreted Poe’s works in light of changing literary and cultural sensibilities. By tracing the trajectory of French translations of Poe’s works, this paper not only contributes to our understanding of the reception of one of America’s foremost literary figures in France but also offers insights into the dynamics of literary translation and cultural exchange. It underscores the enduring relevance and adaptability of Poe’s writings across linguistic and cultural boundaries, highlighting the ways in which they continue to resonate with readers in France and beyond.

Para além de Raymond Aron A primeira recepção de Dilthey na França

Abstract This article delves into the reception of Dilthey’s work in France during the first half of the 20th century. Rather than focusing on his most famous French commentator of the period, Raymond Aron, this study offers an overview of the appropriations of Dilthey present in the works of Alexandre Koyré, historian of science, and also of philosophy, religions, and German speculative mysticism. Deeply marked by Dilthey’s work, Koyré was close to Aron and Bernard Groethuysen, another ignored Diltheyan reader and commentator. This is attested not only by the studies he wrote directly about this author, but also by those in which his name does not appear, including those on the history of German speculative mysticism and the history of science. This seemingly unconventional association underscores the complexity of Dilthey’s reception in France, making clear the need to broaden this field of analysis beyond Aron’s contributions.

Derrida hat Nietzsches Regenschirm verloren. Zu Philipp Felschs Buch Wie Nietzsche aus der Kälte kam

Abstract Derrida Has Lost Nietzsche's Umbrella: On Philipp Felsch's Book Wie Nietzsche aus der Kälte kam. This essay discusses the story of the critical edition of Nietzsche’s complete works by Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari as presented in Philipp Felsch’s book Wie Nietzsche aus der Kälte kam. The book, which is based on biographical material of the two editors, takes up an important episode in European intellectual history in its political, cultural historical context. However, it often presents a questionable use of these sources. A closer examination of that the same source material would situate the history of the edition and its editors in a different context. Likewise, Felsch’s account of the history of Nietzsche’s reception in France, and his reception in the neighboring countries, lacks nuance and reveals some remarkable examples of misreading. Like in other genres of history, scholars of discourse history and intellectual history need to read sources closely and critically. When we talk of dealing with primary sources, the work that editors have done in commentaries and editions should be taken into account. Finally, I argue that we should not dismiss recent innovations in editing methods as confusing or “vulcano-like,” but we would do well to appreciate the opportunities offered by the digital humanities, both for a professional readership and a wider audience.

The Problem of Reception of the Machiavelli’s «The Prince» Ideas in Cardinal Richelieu’s «Political Testament»

The presented article examine the impact of the main ideas of Chapter XVIII of Machiavelli's "The Prince" on the development of socio-political thought in France in the early modern period. The author proposes to consider the indicated problems within the framework of the concept of the dialogue nature of the Italian and French tiled traditions put forward by him. This allows us to see the leading role of the Italian political thought of the Renaissance, its reception in France and the reaction to it within the framework of French social and political thought. From a methodological point of view, this reaction takes on the most significant form in Richelieu's Political Testament. The author of the article, taking into account the assessments made by representatives of the French and American historiography of the issue under study, comes to the conclusion that the eighteenth chapter of The Sovereign had a significant impact on the political thinking of Cardinal Richelieu, who was forced not only to take into account the point of view of Machiavelli, but also to argue with it in the "Political Testament".

Французские стихи Николая Гумилева

Paris, regarded for centuries as the literary capital of the world, the literary ‘homeland of choice’, gave shelter (permanently or temporarily) to many great writers. Poets all over the world have dreamed of gaining access to the French reader; it has tacitly been considered a special stepping stone to global recognition. At the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the paths of many Russian poets crossed in Paris. It was there that Gumilyov met A. Tolstoy, M. Voloshin, A. Bely and others. Most of his poems were written in his native language and translated from the foreign language into the native language. A rare case of cultural transfer and cross-linguistic contact are poetic texts written by the author in a foreign language, based on the original in his native language (auto-translation from the native language), or subsequently written in his native language (auto-translation from a foreign language). The auto-translations by Nikolai Gumilyov (1886–1921) did not have a resonance and his name is not very familiar to the French reader. The few translations done by the French have appeared in anthologies, and the first book of selected poems was published in France in the twenty-first century. Gumilyov’s rhyming poems were not well-received at a time when vers libre standard was being developed in France. The linguistic roughness of the form, striving for the classical form, gave the impression of linguistic errors. Gumilyov’s innovation manifested itself in overcoming national and temporal boundaries. A later fondness for the history of French literature manifested itself in programmatic focus of manifestos on tradition, which ran counter to Parisian contemporaries who deviated from laws of “beautiful clarity”. The desire to convey the music of the Russian syllabo-tonic also did not favour publications in French. Gumilev’s reception in France was delayed in time.

Nietzsche e Sartre na encruzilhada: itinerários de filósofos andarilhos

The purpose of this article is to demonstrate points that attaches and separate the philosophical paths taken by Nietzsche and Sartre; thus, after a brief passage about Nietzsche's reception in France and, in particular, around Sartre's impressions on the German philosopher, the article discourses the concept of corporeality developed by the authors, and then, reflects on the notion of acting arising from this conception: if we are not commanded by a rational-volitional mechanism, what moves human actions? Freedom, Sartre will answer; the Will to Power, Nietzsche would say. And if Nietzsche's philosophy demands for everyone to make themselves an artistic work, Sartre appeals to the situation circumscribed by free action. Finally, the article proposes an extemporaneous dialogue between wandering philosophers around the freedom-responsibility, body-consciousness correlations, to think about such questions.

Anna and her sisters: Anna Magnani as an icon in Italy, France and Argentina

This article aims to examine some of the peculiarities of Anna Magnani as an icon and to situate it in a trans-national dimension, mainly focusing on its reception in France and Argentina. In particular, I will highlight the traits connecting the figure of Magnani with those of Édith Piaf and Tita Merello, who in the post-war period display traits similar to those of the Italian actress. Through the comparative analysis of film frames, songs, articles and photographs taken from the press, I will identify some features common to these three icons who dominated the star system immediately after the war. I will show how these figures invented a new form of female diva and an anti-spectacular stardom which moved within an autonomous and eccentric environment when compared to contemporary film production.

L’identité de genre en psychiatrie, une filiation oubliée ?

From the observation of the debates around sex and gender that have taken place in France since the beginning of this century, the article questions the place of the American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Robert Stoller. By recalling some facts that marked his reception in France at the end of the 1970s, we question his presence within his profession and the opportunity for contemporary French psychiatrists to incorporate his intellectual orientations and conceptions. The expression «gender identity» is now well known and widely used, and Stoller was one of the first to use it. To welcome Stoller is not to welcome the philosopher Judith Butler, even though these two figures are sometimes (strangely) associated. Beyond the debates that the concept of gender continues to provoke and the troubles that it arouses within the professions related to the brain, it is an opportunity for its representatives to question the social role of psychiatry and its capacity to formulate a new pact between society and itself. Incorporating the gender issues can also be an opportunity to test the relevance of a conceptual tool or even to contribute to reformulating the reception and consideration by mental health services of people affected by the expression of their sexual identity.

Tannhäuser réhabilité (VI) – « La Quatrième » devant la presse parisienne – le snobisme et l’enthousiasme

« La quatrième »’s image in the parisian press – the snobbery and the enthusiasm The greatest star of the Parisian Tannhäuser’s performances in 1895 was Ernest Van Dyck in the title role. According to the Parisian press this production of Wagner’s work owed its success mainly to this Belgian tenor. However after his departure from Paris, and after some other changes of the cast that took place rather rapidly (still in the summer 1895), the performances’ artistic level hasn’t decreased in a significant way, and the work, played continuously until December 15th, 1913, was always highly appreciated by the French audience. Were the enthusiastic reactions of the Parisian public at the turn of the XIXth and XXth centuries to Wagner’s Tannhäuser and his other operas and musical dramas sincere and spontaneous? What was the part of the snobbery in Wagner’s reception in France during La Belle Époque? That was the question asked by some French journalists (Heugel, Maret, Doumic, Coppée and others). The author of the article recalls Georges Rodenbach’s Solomonic answer to this question presented in his text Tannhäuser et le snobisme.

Вітґенштайн та феноменологія: контроверзи французької інтерпретації

The author of the article focuses on the matter of Wittgenstein's philosophy reception in France. The reception of Wittgenstein's philosophy was quite late and led to different, sometimes opposite interpretations of his thought, even among French analytical philosophers. Applying a sociological approach to the problem of reception, the author identifies factors that hindered the penetration of the ideas of analytical philosophy in France, including the powerful institutionalization of philosophy in France with its inherent traditionalism and conservatism, fully expressed national character of French philosophy, as well as the extremely polemical character of French analytical philosophy, the transformation of the choice of this tradition of philosophizing into an ethical and political choice. These factors are illustrated by an analysis of Wittgenstein's conflicting interpretation of Jacques Bouveresse and Sandra Laugier. If the first creates an image of Wittgenstein as Anti-Husserl, blaming the phenomenologist for ignoring ordinary language, the second proposes a phenomenological reading of Wittgenstein's ideas using the philosophy of ordinary language. The article shows how opposing interpretations of Wittgenstein's philosophy reproduce the internal conflicts of the French philosophical field.

Healing myths, yoga styles and social bodies: socio-logics of yoga as a health practice in the socially stratified city of Marseille, France

Drawing on participant observation and interviews in two yoga studios in the highly socially stratified city of Marseille, France, this paper explores the understandings of yoga as a health practice that emerge at the intersections between yoga styles and their social contexts of consumption. Its insights emerge from the comparison of three modern yoga styles that were developed for Western English-speaking cultural contexts – Iyengar, Bikram and Forrest – and which differ in form but also in the chronology of their emergence on the global yoga market and that of their reception in France. These three yoga styles are also branded through contrasting mythologies of transformational healing, and the aim of this paper is to explore how a brand conceptualization of yoga as a health practice relates to or resonates with the embodied experiences of practitioners, and to the socio-cultural contexts in which practitioners and their practices are embedded. The paper contributes a new case study to the global yoga scholarship and to a poorly studied French yoga scene, but more importantly, it cross-examines the discourses through which a yoga style is branded, the way it is transmitted, and the social context and social positioning of the individuals who practice it. Combining perspectives on the body, narrative and rituals, it identifies how yoga healing is construed in relation to gender, ethnicity and class and the points of consensus and dissent that emerge from the encounters between French social bodies and exogenous yoga styles.

Закъснелият Кафка

In “Kafka's Reception in Bulgaria until 1989” Mladen Vlashki combines the modern theory of cultural transfer with the sociological theories of the field and with the system theory. The monograph presents the most essential characteristic of the writer's work, against the background of which the hypothesis of future difficulties in front of Kafka's reception in view of the literary field in Bulgaria acquires density. A solid reconstruction of the trajectories of Kafka's reception in France, England and the United States has been made, which imposes it as a classic of modernity. Compared to the reception in other socialist countries and in the context of the Cold war, additional factors determining the Bulgarian reactions are revealed. Emphasis is placed on the "cases" Minko Nikolov and Dimitar Stoevski.

The Impact of Ḥasidei Ashkenaz in Northern France: The Evidence of Sefer Ḥasidut and Ḥayyei ‘Olam

This article examines several medieval pietistic works in northern France and Germany that shed light on the influence of Hasidei Ashkenaz. It also considers recent scholarship by Israel Ta-Shma, Ephraim Kanarfogel, Haym Soloveitchik, and Benjamin Richler. Ta-Shma and Kanarfogel have argued that the Tosafist school of Evreux was influenced by the religious ideals of the Ashkenazi pietists, whereas Soloveitchik has insisted that no significant Ḥasidic influence can be detected in the Tosafist school. Relying on manuscript evidence, Richler claimed that Sefer ha-Yir’ah, which had long been attributed to the Catalan scholar Jonah of Gerona, was an Ashkenazi work titled Ḥayyei ‘Olam. Nevertheless, the scholarly consensus today views the traditional attribution as correct. The present study contends that the medieval practice of copying and circulating the works of others upholds Richler’s theory. One can therefore rightfully distinguish between Jonah’s activities as an independent author and his role as a scribe who transferred material from France, where he studied in his youth, to Spain, where he became an influential scholar and public figure. Following the reconstruction of the textual history of Ḥayyei ‘Olam-Sefer ha-Yir’ah, this article makes the case for how pietism or radical piety moved to France, that is, from Ḥasidei Ashkenaz to Evreux. Two German works were likely the main catalysts: Sefer Ḥasidim attributed to Judah he-Ḥasid and works written by Eleazar of Worms. Although little is known about the reception in France of the texts composed by Eleazar, it would seem that the modification of Sefer Hasidim evolved into Sefer Ḥasidut and impacted the formation of Ḥayyei ‘Olam.

Газеты и журналы как инструмент формирования литературной репутации Д. С. Мережковского в Европе рубежа XIX-XX столетий

The paper considers the role played by newspapers and other periodicals in Merezhkovskii’s strategies for conquering the Paris literary market as a means of constructing his own European reputation at the turn of the 20th century. It outlines the Russian writer’s early reception in France and demonstrates his attempts to establish contacts with leading French periodicals and publishing houses with the help of francophone mediators of Slavic origin. Special attention is paid to Maurice (Mavrikii Eduardovich) Prozor, a Russian diplomat who lived in Europe, had some influence in Western literary circles, particularly among the editors of newspapers and reviews, and significantly contributed to promoting Merezhkovskii.

Les traducteurs, passeurs culturels entre la France et l'Autriche ed. by Irène Cagneau, Sylvie Grimm-Hamen, and Marc Lacheny

Reviewed by: Les traducteurs, passeurs culturels entre la France et l'Autriche ed. by Irène Cagneau, Sylvie Grimm-Hamen, and Marc Lacheny Katherine Arens Irène Cagneau, Sylvie Grimm-Hamen, and Marc Lacheny, eds., Les traducteurs, passeurs culturels entre la France et l'Autriche. Forum: Österreich 10. Berlin: Frank & Timme, 2020. 268 pp. Edited by three of our French colleagues, Les traducteurs, passeurs culturels entre la France et l'Autriche (Translators, Ferrying Culture between France and Austria) is another of the fine volumes emerging from Austrian studies in France. Irène Cagneau is from the Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France [End Page 156] at Valenciennes, Sylvie Grimm-Hamen from the l'Université de Lorraine at Nancy, and Marc Lacheny from l'Université de Lorraine at Metz. It comprises contributions from a Franco-Austrian Colloquium held in October 2018 at the Université de Lorraine, one of a series of such meetings held since 2008 in conjunction with a larger project that engages Innsbruck, Lille, Valenciennes, and Lorraine. The project tracks translators as agents of cultural transfer between France and Austria from the nineteenth century onward. The various contributions nuance what translating implicates: the personalities of the translators, their environments for work and reception, and the stakes of their work—facets of the literary networks all too often overlooked. Many times, such networks recede behind inherited nineteenth- century nationalist and isolationist narratives, but the editors here present translation studies as integral to cultural studies, including not only familiar issues (whether or not a translation is faithful, if and how a translator is credited, which engages her frequent invisibility), but also, and particularly, the distribution of power within translation networks. This volume provides interesting, well-documented, and solidly theorized case studies that address three major areas of interest for the current generation of translation studies. The first section presents four "Portraits of Translators." Norbert Bachleitner's "Übersetzen nach Vorgaben," takes on the case of Joseph Laudes's late eighteenth-century "translations to measure," which are shown to have been made to serve particular agendas or users. Laudes translated into the environment of the theater the reforms of Joseph von Sonnleitner, which imposed not only certain censorship issues but also aesthetic norms like translating verse into normal speech; Bachleitner examines how they function within the era's networks of production, circulation, and consumption for translations. After that, Éric Leroy du Cardonnoy discusses Xavier Marmier, the translator who introduced early nineteenth-century French readers to the "northern" literature and popular tales. The essay traces how authors like Grillparzer and Caroline Pickler are identified as Austrian but have generally been subsumed into discussions of German aesthetics—an important distinction that belies Austria's wavering opinions of Classicism and Romanticism. The third contribution in this section has Fanny Platelle tracking the Viennese translator of Jacques Offenbach's operett as, Carl Treumann. In the second half of the nineteenth century, Treumann was a translator, director, [End Page 157] and actor who worked alongside Nestroy in the Carltheater. Platelle uses his published work to track his strategies of adaptations from the originals. Wolfgang Pöckl offers, as the final contribution of the first section, a discussion of translator K. L. Ammer (actually, Karl Klammer, 1879–1959) in the context of a new generation of German translation studies. Klammer was himself a poet, and his translations of symbolist poetry (including Maeterlinck, Rimbaud, Baudelaire, and Villon), celebrated by no less than Richard Dehmel, set the tone for their reception. The second section of the book is about "Questions de réception," focusing on the translations themselves rather than the translators in six individual contributions. The first is Sylvie Le Moël's essay on the translations of Caroline Pichler's work in the first third of the nineteenth century—arguably, the first "femme de lett res" in Austrian literature (87). Irène Cagneau addresses translations of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, an admirer of French culture, whose reception in France was overly focused on Venus in Furs. Perhaps the most significant essay for U.S.-based readers, especially anyone and everyone interested in critical theory, Lacan, and poststructuralism, is Audrey Giboux's discussion of twentieth-century translations of Freud—a corpus...

French resistance to Weltanschauung

The French have been reluctant to embrace the idea of Weltanschauung. In sharp contrast with the early introduction of the term in Great Britain (both in translation as “worldview” and in German) around the middle of the nineteenth century, there is no evidence that the French used it before 1930. Weltanschauung has often been described as impossible to translate (most notably by Sigmund Freud in his 1932 essay “A Philosophy of Life”). When Weltanschauung was (re)discovered in the 1930s, it was already accompanied by a substantial critical tradition from Austria and Germany by such thinkers as Sigmund Freud, Max Weber, Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger, and this framed its reception in France. A striking example is provided by Maurice Merleau-Ponty, whose comments on the idea of Weltanschauung are directly derived or even quite literally borrowed from Husserl. This chronology also had important political consequences, as Weltanschauung appeared on the French intellectual scene just before Hitler’s takeover and so became inseparable from its Nazi uses and misuses. As a result, even those whose approach to culture came close to the idea of worldview (like the young Albert Camus trying to define a Mediterranean perception of the world) rejected the politically compromised German concept. Last but not least, the in-depth transformation of history as a discipline that took place under the auspices of the Annales school during the same pre-WWII period also contributed to the rejection of Weltanschauung, which could easily appear as a philosophical forerunner of the rising histoire des mentalités and thus dilute its originality and compromise its political integrity.

A transient allergy: Owen and the Owenites according to Charles Fourier and the Fourierists, from the 1820s to 1837

ABSTRACT This article examines the Fourierist reception of Owenism. In challenging the established historiography on Owen’s reception in France, the article draws on a wide range of Fourierist material – letters, unpublished draft manuscripts, and neglected articles in Fourierist and non-Fourierist periodicals – that previously not accessible to twentieth-century historians in order to reassess the Fourierist response to Owen and Owenism. The article pays special attention to the work of Fourier’s leading disciple, Victor Considerant. It contrasts Fourier’s highly critical evaluation of Owen’s work, with Considerant’s more considered reading of Owen and conciliatory approach in dealing with other socialists, such as the Saint-Simonians and Owen’s French disciples. The article also examines the work of some of Fourier’s other followers, including Jules Lechevalier, Adrien Berbrugger, Alexandre Baudet-Dulary, and Amédée Paget and their evaluations of Owen and Owenism.

The spatial logics of intellectual strategies: The case of the reception of Rawlsian and post-Rawlsian theories of justice in France

This article takes the reception of Rawlsian and post-Rawlsian theories of justice in France as a case study for exploring empirically the connection between French intellectuals’ political and intellectual strategies and their position in the field of cultural production. The diversity of the uses made of Rawls, the agents involved, and their particular engagements all make the French reception of Anglophone political philosophy fertile ground for observing how the constraints associated with various positions in the intellectual field orient the strategies of agents. It draws on a prosopographic research on 115 of the main importers of Rawlsian and post-Rawlsian theories of justice developed in English-speaking countries into France, with semi-structured interviews for 52 of them. Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA) is used to reveal the main oppositions structuring the space of the reception in France of this political philosophy. The article next shows how the many uses of these theories of justice and the forms of engagement in which they were enrolled are related to agents’ structural position in this space. Then the article proceeds to reconstruct in greater detail some of the trajectories of these mediators, including their perceptions of the space of ‘possibles’ available to them and how they orient themselves within that space. It thus sheds light on how intellectual strategies are developed, and the mechanisms through which these bring forth homologies between structural positions, intellectual position-takings, and models of political engagement.

Biography in Contemporary France

This article provides a survey of biography in France today, limiting its scope to biography considered as a distinct genre relative to other forms of life writing such as autobiography, memoir, or diary. It seeks to explain biography's contrasted reception in France, where it is in fact very popular, though still apparently held in relatively mediocre esteem in academia, if not in the Académie. The study examines the historical and ideological reasons for the resistance that biography has long been met with in some academic walks. By contrast, it also demonstrates the vivacity of biography in France, with a presentation of the best-known French biographers and the main publishers, book series, and prizes devoted to the genre.

A Internacionalização de Clarice Lispector: Aspectos da Recepção na França

O artigo tem por objetivo investigar e refletir sobre os aspectos iniciais da internacionalização da obra traduzida de Clarice Lispector na França. Visando o desenho de um percurso histórico da recepção da escritora neste país, foi feito um levantamento, leitura e análise da repercussão crítica a partir de documentos disponibilizados em formato eletrônico. O método utilizado foi a compilação de artigos acadêmicos, resenhas críticas publicadas em jornais ou revistas literárias e textos sobre Clarice publicados na França, acessíveis por meio das ferramentas de busca Google e Google Acadêmico. O estudo concentra-se no período dos anos 1950 aos anos 1980. A pergunta que permeia o trabalho é qual o lugar da escritora brasileira no âmbito literário Francês?