Textes hétérolingues et textes traduits : de « la langue » aux figures de l’énonciation. Pour une littérature comparée différentielle

• Main Author: Suchet, Myriam
• Format: Others
• Published: 2010
• Online Access: http://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/7445/1/Suchet%2DPhD%2DS2011.pdf; Suchet, Myriam <http://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/view/creators/Suchet=3AMyriam=3A=3A.html> (2010) Textes hétérolingues et textes traduits : de « la langue » aux figures de l’énonciation. Pour une littérature comparée différentielle. PhD thesis, Concordia University - Lille 3 (France).

Literature readily invents itself another tongue. Written simultaneously in several languages, texts said to be “heterolingual” don’t invent another language ; they imagine “language” otherwise. The particularly demanding reading pact they propose entails a veritable experience of difference. Balanced at the intersection of idioms, the subject of the heterolingual enunciation seems never to coincide with himself. When approached from the perspective of the heterolingual imaginary, the translated text reveals the presence of an instance of enunciation which is specific to itself. The notion of ethos can be employed to characterise the one who is responsable for the heterolingual text as the responsable for the translated text, by the manner in which languages are placed into relation to one another. Between the respect for “the other as other” and an ethnocentric attitude, it is necessary to envision a whole range of relations to alterity. In the context of the debate on national identity and the claim to cultural diversities, it seems imperative to recall the critical function of literature and comparatist methodology. The future of comparative literature as a discipline is not all that is at stake : there is the matter of ethical vigilance which far exceeds the framing of Nation-States. The analysis is founded on four source texts and their French, English, German and Spanish translations : The Voice by Gabriel Okara, Sozaboy by Ken Saro-Wiwa, Juan sin Tierra by Juan Goytisolo and Die Niemandsrose by Paul Celan.