Au-delà du vertige. Mises en abyme ou la traduction des réseaux de clichés dans les romans Harlequin

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This article presents the different stages involved in translating clichés in Harlequin romance novels. Various ways of condensing and reducing clichés are characteristic of the stéréotypical networks that transport the reader to peaks of rapture culminating in what is a fitting end to a sentimental novel: marriage. The aim of this translating process is to adapt stéréotypés to the target culture, using a cognitive mechanism that allows the reader to recognize all the éléments of these stéréotypés according to patterns linked to his/her collective imagination. The cliché, by blurring the “réality effect” ( “effet de réel”), creates a “nature effect” (“effet de nature”). It validates the genuineness of a protagonist's feelings, and allows the fictional world to open on to a representation of desire.