Bibliographic record
Abstract
The American novelist Sinclair Lewis published It Can't Happen Here in 1935; this work of political fiction was then translated into French by Raymond Queneau and appeared two years later under the title Impossible ici. The source text reveals an imagined American here whereas the imagined xenophobic and racist world translated as ici served as a reminder of the reality of pre-war Europe. Readers of target-oriented translations benefit from translators' life experiences. Those same readers, who are often fond of foreignized translations, can also regret the intentional dissimulation of the source language-culture, because they love alterity as well. In literary translation, is this choice philosophical or purely pragmatic? This essay is an opportunity to reflect on these two perceptions of an imagined world. Résumé Le romancier américain Sinclair Lewis publie en 1935 It Can't Happen Here, une œuvre de politique-fiction ; Raymond Queneau publie deux ans après la traduction française sous le titre Impossible ici. Le texte source nous présente un here américain imaginé tandis que l’imaginaire que nous livre le traducteur se rapproche d’un monde xénophobe et raciste qui était sur le point de se réaliser : l’ici de l’Europe d’avant-guerre. Selon l’esprit cibliste, le lecteur de la traduction française bénéficie de l’expérience de terrain du traductographe. Mais, friand parfois des traductions sourcières, ce même lecteur peut aussi regretter l’atténuation de la langue-culture car il aime aussi l’altérité. S’agit-il d’une prise de position philosophique ou d’une position purement pragmatique ? Cette réflexion sur la traduction de ce roman confrontera les deux imaginaires. Mots-clés cibliste, imaginaires, politique-fiction, sourcier, traductographe
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.021 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.014 | 0.009 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.008 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.014 | 0.005 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".