27 septembre 2017
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Marilyn Gaddis Rose, « The Role of Translation in History », Les Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa | University of Ottawa Press, ID : 10670/1.cx2laz
Whoever writes history may well control it. Indeed, this is the desperation in historiography: whoever records the present may control the past and hence the future as well. How can we learn from history when the records have been falsified? Or erased? Especially when or where historiography as the West extols it is moot? The case of André Malraux (1900–1976) suggests that belles lettres, rather than historiography, may preserve more reliable insights. Further, his translators, who expanded h...