Constrição fonética e correspondência nas traduções para português e romeno de Exercices de style de Raymond Queneau
Phonetic Constriction and Correspondence in the Portuguese and Romanian Translations of Exercices de style by Raymond Queneau

Summary/Abstract: The article aims to analyze the way in which phonetic constrictions have been recreated in the Portuguese (European and Brazilian) and Romanian translations of Raymond Queneau’s text Exercices de style, which recounts the same event in 99 different styles, respecting and illustrating the principles of the OuLiPo group. Queneau’s work features a narrator who meets a man on the S bus with a long neck and a hat that, instead of a ribbon, is decorated with a string, who accuses another passenger of having pushed him. The young man then sits down in an empty seat. Then, at Saint-Lazare station, the narrator sees the same young man on the bus talking to a friend who advises him to change a button on his overcoat. Out of the 99 texts in the original French version, this paper examines four, which were written under phonetic constraints relying on the phonological processes of insertion and deletion. More precisely, the focus is on texts addressing addition and omission of sounds at the beginning and end of words: prosthesis, paragoge, apheresis and apocope. By examining these texts, we will explore the way constriction is imposed and the techniques employed to achieve it.

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