Origins and Legacies of Marcel Duhamel’s Série Noire

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Origins and Legacies of Marcel Duhamel’s Série Noire is written by Alistair Charles Rolls and published by BRILL. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9004359001 (ISBN 10) and 9789004359000 (ISBN 13).

In Origins and Legacies of Marcel Duhamel’s Série Noire Alistair Rolls, Clara Sitbon and Marie-Laure Vuaille-Barcan counter the myths and received wisdom that are typically associated with this iconic French crime fiction series, namely: that it was born in Paris on a tide of postwar euphoria; that it initially consisted of translations of American hard-boiled classics by the likes of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler; and that the translations were rushed and rather approximate. Instead, an alternative vision of Duhamel’s translation practice is proposed, one based on a French tradition of auto-, or “original”, translation of “ostensibly” American crime fiction, and one that appropriates the source text in order to create an allegory of the target culture.