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Article: Acts of suppression: Adapting Le Rouge et le Noir.(Critical essay)
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- Literature-Film Quarterly
- Article date:
- July 1, 2007
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Toute adaptation est fatalement une trahison, et nous devons faire de
notre mieux pour que cette trahison--et cela peut se faire tres bien--,
soit une bonne trahison. c'est-a-dire qu'elle respecte non pas
l'integralite, l'integrite de l'oeuvre, mais qu'elle en respecte
l'esprit.
(Autant-Lara 253)
Every adaptation is fatally a betrayal, and we must do our best so that
that betrayal--and this can easily be done--, is a good betrayal, that
is, that it respects not the entirety or the integrity of the work, but
that it respects its spirit. (2)
If Stendhal's Le Rouge et le Noir (1830) is a classic literary text, it is so at least partly because it continues to ...