Son et traduction dans l'oeuvre de Proust

Emily Eells, Naomi Toth

"There were days when the sound of a bell that sounded the hour bore on the sphere of its sound a plate so fresh, so powerfully spread with wetness or light, that it was like a translation for the blind, or , if you will, as a musical translation of the charm of the rain, or the charm of the sun.» (The Prisoner). For the narrator of In Search of Lost Time , the translated sound; moreover, he defines the task of the writer as that of a translator. From then on, between sound and literary language, there is a close parallel but also a small gap, so that a vanishing point fits in the text: the writer translates a sound already translated itself. What to do with all these strata of sound when we try to make them in a language other than French? What does the practice of translation reveal in the way Proust thinks of the relationship between sonority and language? These are the questions...