Very interesting, thanks ɴienne for these pr飩sions which are
certainly very useful for non-French speakers...I would
simply add that most French noir (or assimilated) novels have
within their titles and in the body of the text, play on
words and Œjousts with languages¹ that are a very integral
part of this d鴯urnement of language and that this is linked
to the writing of polemicists in newspapers in France from
the time of the Commune to the current Canard Encha weekly
satirical newspaper...something slightly akin to the work of
some UK satirical papers and programs like Monty Python...I
know of no paper (with a national audience and readership) in
the US that would be the equivalent, but journalistic
traditions and practices are different....
One question comes after your answer and Mark¹s just before,
what are the best translations of the two terms used so
frequently in talk about and by French writers and critics:
d鴯urnement and d鲩ve...I have had so much hesitations when
doing translations myself for Europolar or others... Several
U. literary profs (both French and Us) give Œdrifting¹ for
d鲩ve as a standard in the academic field, but d鴯urnement goes
from Œborrowing¹
(socio-linguistics) to Œavoidance¹ with many variations...Is
there something that you feel comfortable in translating
those to words in English in the context of crime and noir
novels.
Thanks in advance for these precisions and again for the
explanations.
Montois de D鴲oit
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