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Universidad de Cádiz

Abstract: La fille Elisa, Edmond de Goncourt’s novel, was the first one he wrote alone, without Jules. It was published in France in 1877 and the translation into Spanish appeared some months later, in 1878. La fille Elisa has been translated and published in Spain for more than one hundred years; the last version dating from 1994. This text has been very present in Spain but the translation does not match Edmond’s original goal. The novel was published with a different title each time, and in 1878 it appeared with a new long subtitle that gave an appearance to the text that doesn’t correspond to the text. So in Spain La fille Elisa has been used only for commercial reasons.

Keywords: Spain, 19th century, translation, novel, Goncourt, La fille Elisa

La internacionalmente conocida y polémica Académie Goncourt fue fundada en 1900 por la última voluntad de Edmond y Jules de Goncourt, según consta en el testamento ológrafo del primero de ellos. El objetivo de la creación de la Académie Goncourt, que pretendía rivalizar en cierta manera con la Académie française, era otorgar un premio cada año a “un ouvrage d’imagination en prose paru dans l’année”; los Goncourt buscaban, con este premio, fomentar la producción literaria de los más jóvenes. No es, pues, la abundante producción literaria, ni las obras históricas, ni los...