Les relations entre les personnages romanesques. L’écrivain et son traducteur par la proxémique de E. T. Hall
Relationships Established Between the Characters in the Novel. The Writer and His Translator through E. T. Hall’s Proxemics

Summary/Abstract: The American anthropologist Edward T. Hall developed the theory of physical distances between human bodies during interaction: proxemics. The study of inter-individual distances within a society provides insight into interpersonal relationships, as well as the psychology of space. It enables us to observe individuals’ gestures and behaviour in all areas of their lives: intimate, personal, social and public. These are, in fact, the four proxemic spheres in which the four types of interpersonal distance manifest themselves in humans: intimate, personal, social and public. When applied to literature, proxemics reveals the psychology of characters and the relationships they enter into out of a need for affection, and for family, professional and social success. The physical distance they impose on others reveals the nature of their relationships: whether close, reassuring or oppressive, or distant. We propose to analyse, through proxemics, the relationships between fictional characters in order to arrive at those established between the writer and their translator. From fiction to real life, and from real life to fiction, everything revolves around space and the presence of human beings within it, whether alone or in relation to others; for apart from the indomitable loners who seek refuge in solitude and replace the individual with the animal or nature, human beings are social creatures, and therefore in relation to others. However, their sense of privacy compels them to maintain a certain physical and psychological distance from others. This varies according to their culture, as evidenced by their behaviour.

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