by Robert Giraud, Pierre Ditalia · Editions Joseph K · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782910686062
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«L'argot de la Série noire» is the slang dictionary by Robert Giraud and Pierre Ditalia, published by Editions Joseph K in 1996 (400 pages, in French).
Study and dictionary of the slang used in the French translations of the «Série Noire». The authors compile the terms from all the works in the collection, offer their various meanings, and place them in context through quotations and cross-references to the texts, in homage to the translators who shaped the crime genre in France since 1945.
Volume 1, subtitled «L'argot des traducteurs»; includes a brief illustrated history of the Série Noire 1945-1995 and a foreword by Patrick Raynal.
Recommended for French-speaking readers interested in crime fiction, slang, and the history of literary translation.
Robert Giraud, was a French journalist, poet and lexicographer. He is the author of over 30 books and subject of the 2009 biography Monsieur Bob by Olivier Bailly.
