Adapted Voices
Transpositions of Céline’s Voyage au bout de la nuit and Queneau’s Zazie dans le métro

Armelle Blin-Rolland

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22 July 2015  •  192pp

ISBN: 978-1-909662-56-8 (hardback)  •  RRP £80, $110, €95

ISBN: 978-1-315097-58-9 (Taylor & Francis ebook)

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Voyage au bout de la nuit (1932), by Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894-1961), and Zazie dans le métro (1959), by Raymond Queneau (1903-1976), were two revolutionary novels in their transposition of spoken language into written language. Since their publication they have been adapted into a broad range of media, including illustrated novel, bande dessinée, film, stage performance and recorded reading. What happens to their striking literary voices as they are transposed into media that combine text and image, sound and image, or consist of sound alone? In this study, Armelle Blin-Rolland examines adaptations sparked by these two seminal novels to understand what ‘voice’ means in each medium, and its importance in the process of adaptation.

Armelle Blin-Rolland is a Lecturer in French Studies at Bangor University.

Reviews:

  • ‘Overall, this study displays great skill in the handling of diverse materials across different media, proposing convincing readings of specific works and transpositions within a persuasive overall argument about the centrality of ‘voice’ to debates around adaptation.’ — Douglas Smith, Irish Journal of French Studies 16, 2016

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Blin-Rolland, Armelle, Adapted Voices: Transpositions of Céline’s Voyage au bout de la nuit and Queneau’s Zazie dans le métro, Transcript, 2 (Legenda, 2015)

First footnote reference: 35 Armelle Blin-Rolland, Adapted Voices: Transpositions of Céline’s Voyage au bout de la nuit and Queneau’s Zazie dans le métro, Transcript, 2 (Legenda, 2015), p. 21.

Subsequent footnote reference: 37 Blin-Rolland, p. 47.

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Blin-Rolland, Armelle. 2015. Adapted Voices: Transpositions of Céline’s Voyage au bout de la nuit and Queneau’s Zazie dans le métro, Transcript, 2 (Legenda)

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