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149 months ago

Amanda Haste PhD, DipTrans(IoLET), MCIL, CL   asked this question:

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149 months ago

   wrote:

the author's interior monologue

My comment:

Or to sound even more literate, I might maintain the original French and simply write "the prose-fleuve of the author", as long as you italicize the French. Your rendition would sound more original that way, more "yours".

My references:

wickipedia.com

149 months ago

   wrote:

stream of consciousness

My comment:

You just keep writing without stopping: it flows like a river.

I find one usage, on a French Swiss site, referring to one author.

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149 months ago

Amanda Haste PhD, DipTrans(IoLET), MCIL, CL   wrote:

Yes, my first thought was 'stream of consciousness', but given the 'roman-fleuve' I wondered if there was an element of 'saga' about it. Still debating between Barbara's solution and yours...

149 months ago

Amanda Haste PhD, DipTrans(IoLET), MCIL, CL   wrote:

James Joyce's stream of consciousness in Ulysses is referred to as un roman fleuve. Stream of consciousness is the fleuve bit. I have never heard of stream of consciousness that was not prose, so I left it out....monologue intérieur is interior monologue, Amanda.

149 months ago

Amanda Haste PhD, DipTrans(IoLET), MCIL, CL   wrote:

Sorry, misspelling: un roman-fleuve. For JJ.

149 months ago

Amanda Haste PhD, DipTrans(IoLET), MCIL, CL   wrote:

On second thought, you could say stream-of-consciousness prose to distinguish it from a novel proprement dit...though prose does suggest there might be stream-of-consciousness poetry or something else. Not sure that saga is suggested by the French...

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