The European Literary Field: Structures, Processes and Networks of Book Production and Translation in Europe

本提案旨在对欧洲文学领域进行社会学研究。本次调查的目的是分析在欧洲文化生产，翻译和流通的一个重要领域的文化整合的过程和结构。图书市场受到全球化进程的影响，这强烈影响了当地作者和图书生产商的地位，因为他们受到竞争的影响，在语言地区和图书市场之间产生了不平等。然而，欧洲正在见证自己的文学创作领域的出现，这似乎对这些机会和限制产生了影响，尽管我们对这个领域、它的结构和后果知之甚少。拟议的项目以文化和欧洲社会学为基础，并希望有助于更好地理解欧洲一体化进程及其后果。该提案将重点放在翻译上，因为后者是理解和分析欧洲文学领域结构和功能的关键。该项目有两个主要目标。首先，我们希望收集有关欧洲文学领域范围和结构的系统数据（例如，文化交流的强度，语言和国家之间的不平等，对非欧洲地区的封闭）。其次，我们希望更好地理解欧洲文学领域形成和结构背后的（经济、政治、社会、文化）力量。与此同时，我们希望加深我们对合作和交易形式的了解，以及在一个以高度文化多样性为标志的领域中形成文化交流的规则和话语。该项目提出了一项由四个工作包组成的工作计划。该项目将首先审查现有数据和文件，并进行一系列专家访谈，以便使我们的知识适应项目开始时的情况。在第二步中，欧洲领域的结构将通过对翻译书籍进行标准化的统计分析来系统地重建和分析。我们将生成一个包含一年内所有翻译书籍的数据集，并进行严格的网络分析，旨在确定翻译流程的结构，并参考上下文指标对其进行解释。第三步，我们将致力于对翻译过程的分析，以揭示欧洲文学领域的合作、策略、规范和话语模式。为此，我们将采用定性数据和方法（访谈、文件分析、观察和情景分析）。最后，该项目将致力于跨工作包的研究结果的综合和三角测量，以及我们的研究成果的传播和出版。

This proposal aims to engage in a sociological inquiry of the European literary field. The aim of this inquiry is to analyse processes and structures of cultural integration in an important field of cultural production, translation and circulation in Europe. Book markets are exposed to globalisation processes, which are strongly affecting the position of local authors and book producers, since they are subjected to competition that generates inequalities between language areas and book markets. Europe, however, is witnessing the emergence of its own field of literary production that seems to impact on these opportunities and constraints, even though we know very little about this field, its structures and consequences. The proposed project is anchored in the sociology of culture and Europe, and aspires to contribute to a better understanding of the European integration process and its consequences. The proposal puts its focus on translations, because the latter are key to understanding and analysing the structures and functions of the European field of literature. The project has two major objectives. First, we wish to gather systematic data on the scope and structure of the European literary field (e.g., intensity of cultural exchanges, inequalities between languages and countries, closure towards non-European areas). Second, we wish to better understand the (economic, political, social, cultural) forces behind the formation and structuration of the European literary field. At the same time, we wish to deepen our knowledge of the forms of cooperation and bargains, the rules and discourses patterning cultural exchanges within a field that is marked by a high degree of cultural diversity. The project proposes a work plan consisting of four work packages. The project will start with a review of available data and documents, and a series of expert interviews, in order to adapt our knowledge to the situation at the start of the project. In a second step, the structures of the European field will be systematically reconstructed and analysed by means of a standardised, statistical analysis of translated books. We will generate a dataset comprising all translated books over one year, and engage in a rigorous network analysis geared toward identifying the structures of translation flows and explaining them with reference to contextual indicators. In a third step, we will devote ourselves to the analysis of translation processes in order to unveil the cooperation, strategies, norms and discourses patterning the European literary field. For this purpose, we will resort to qualitative data and methods (interviews, document analysis, observations and situational analysis). Finally, the project will be dedicated to the synthesis and triangulation of findings across work packages, and the dissemination and publication of our research findings.