French literature through its Czech translations over the past 25 years

Abstract

This article surveys the last 25 years of the Czech publishing landscape with the aim to show how this choice is made and how it is motivated. In order to analyze trends in the selection of works in the book market, we draw on a bibliographic corpus of Czech translations of French works published between 1990 and 2015.

Keywords

• literary translation
• bibliography of translations
• book market
• French literature
• Czech literature