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Structure and evolution of the space of translated literature into French (1984-2002)
Author/s : Gisèle Sapiro
This paper analyzes the principles which structure the space of translated literature into French and its transformation during the last twenty years, period of acceleration of the process of unification of a worldly publishing market. It is based on a quantitative analysis of the main series of foreign literature in France (« Du monde entier » at Gallimard, etc.), to which were added series such as Laffont’s « Best sellers », which includes an important number of translated books, and the publishing house specializing in foreign literature like Actes sud or smaller publishers. The inquiry seeks to reconstruct the structure of the space of translated literature according to the opposition between a pole of restricted production, represented by the series of foreign literature, and a pole of large production, represented by worldly best-sellers. It also analyses the differentiation principles at the pole of restricted production and studies the evolution of this structure, which reveals the increasing influence of economical principles and of the anglo-american domination within this pole.
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