Alchemy and Amalgam: Translation in the Works of Charles Baudelaire

302 Pages·2004·1.06 MB·English

by  Emily Salines

Alchemy and Amalgam
Translation in the Works of
Charles Baudelaire
FAUX TITRE
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Etudes de langue et littérature françaises
publiées sous la direction de
Keith Busby, M.J. Freeman,
Sjef Houppermans, Paul Pelckmans
et Co Vet
Alchemy and Amalgam
Translation in the Works of
Charles Baudelaire
Emily Salines
AMSTERDAM - NEW YORK, NY 2004
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgements 7
Abbreviations 9
Introduction 11
Chapter 1: ‘L’amour du métier’?
Baudelaire’s approaches to translation 19
Chapter 2: Translation in 19th-century France 61
Chapter 3: Translation and creation
in Un Mangeur d’opium 87
Chapter 4: Le ‘procès baudelairien’ 121
Baudelaire and literary property
Chapter 5: Baudelaire’s aesthetics of amalgame 165
Chapter 6: The limits of translation 201
Conclusion: Translation as metaphor? 247
Appendix A: Chronology of Baudelaire’s translations 255
Appendix B: Annotated extract from Un Mangeur d’opium 261
Appendix C: Literary Property Law of 19 July 1793 269
Appendix D: ‘Le Joujou du pauvre’ / Morale du joujou 271
Bibliography 275
Index of source authors and translations 299
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I would like to thank Dr Sonya Stephens, Profs Edward Hughes,
Peter Broome and Michele Hannoosh for their invaluable advice
and help at various stages of the manuscript.
The Centre for Research in Translation at Middlesex
University has been the ideal environment in which to develop my
ideas about Baudelaire and translation. I thank my colleagues and
students of the Centre, who through their comments and questions
have enriched my work.
I thank the Women Graduates Association for awarding me
an emergency grant for the summer of 1995, and Royal Holloway,
University of London for awarding me a travel grant in the same
year, which allowed me to spend a month at the Bibliothèque
Nationale. I am very grateful to Middlesex University for awarding
me a period of sabbatical leave in the Autumn of 1999, during
which the manuscript was completed.
I would like to express my gratitude to Linzy Dickinson for
her help and friendship throughout this project. Last but not least,
Steve Russell, my family and friends deserve special thanks for their
encouragement and support, as well as their patience!
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ABBREVIATIONS
The following abbreviations are used:
ŒCI and ŒCII: Baudelaire, Charles, Œuvres complètes, ed. by
Claude Pichois (Paris: Gallimard, 1975-76).
CI and CII: Baudelaire, Charles, Correspondance, ed. by Claude
Pichois with the collaboration of Jean Ziegler (Paris: Gallimard,
1973).
SLW: Baudelaire, Charles, Un Mangeur d’opium avec le texte
parallèle des Confessions of an English Opium Eater et des Suspiria
de profundis de Th. De Quincey, édition critique et commentée par
Michèle Stäuble-Lipman Wulf, Études Baudelairiennes VI-VII
(Neuchâtel: La Baconnière, 1976).
EAP: Poe, Edgar Allan, Œuvres en prose, Traduites par Charles
Baudelaire, Texte établi et annoté par Y.-G. Le Dantec (Paris:
Gallimard, 1951).
Ouvrages73: Baudelaire, Charles, Edgar Alan Poe, sa vie et ses
ouvrages, Edition commentée par W. T. Bandy (Toronto: University
of Toronto Press, 1973).
Poe: Poe, Edgar Allan, The Complete Tales and Poems (New York:
Dorset Press, 1989).