Jul 6, 2021 14:50
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Portuguese term

folhetim

Portuguese to English Art/Literary Poetry & Literature A type of story/novel written as a series in newspapers
I am doing a translation of an interview with the writer Sergio Sant'Anna that talks about the book Amazon, which is in the "folhetim" format. I'm wondering if anyone here knows this book and what kind of book it was. Does the word "folhetim" have an equivalent in English or should I use the Portuguese term?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sérgio_Sant'Anna#Bibliography
https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folhetim

Discussion

Lara Barnett Jul 7, 2021:
Gloss If this is an interview, and it is expressed by a Portuguese speaker, as it obviously is, I would keep the native expression, "folhetim" and provide a gloss in brackets. I think this style would be suitable for what is probably a very widely understood term amongst readers of Brazilian texts/novels etc. i.e. the readership should appreciate this seeing as the interview was obviously in the writer's native language anyway.
Domini Lucas Jul 6, 2021:
@peterinmadrid This has come up in the KudoZ glossary in the past. Feuilleton was the usual conclusion as far as I recall. I don't know the specific book, but if you look up the glossary you will see the entries.
Ana Rita Santiago Jul 6, 2021:
Folhetim é um texto literário publicado em capítulos (em jornais ou revistas). Não sei se há uma tradução exata para o inglês e estou sem tempo de pesquisar para você.

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serial

In literature, a serial is a printing format by which a single larger work, often a work of narrative fiction, is published in smaller, sequential installments. The installments are also known as numbers, parts or fascicles, and may be released either as separate publications or within sequential issues of a periodical publication, such as a magazine or newspaper.
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agree Clauwolf
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agree Décio Adams : I found "pamphlet" but it has the same meaning.
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feuilleton

Wikipedia:
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agree Domini Lucas
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feuilleton

É um gênero mesmo. Nele, cada capítulo da estória termina em suspense, que é retomado no capítulo seguinte.
Example sentence:

She used to write in the feuilleton genre.

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agree Domini Lucas
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agree ulissescarvalho
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Obrigado :)
agree Bett : sim
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Obrigado :)
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Zine

Don't know how accurate it is, cause zines are independently done. But maybe work in the context for you.
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serial story

"In English newspapers, the term [feuilleton] instead came to refer to an installment of a serial story printed in one part of a newspaper. [1] The genre of the feuilleton in its French sense was eventually included in English newspapers, but was not referred to as a feuilleton." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feuilleton
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disagree ulissescarvalho : Quase a mesma resposta do Felipe. Não agregou muita coisa.
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fascicle

An individual installment of a serialised work of fiction that is published separately, rather than in a newspaper or magazine is a called a fascicle. For example Dicken's Pickwick Papers was first published separately as fascicles. In contrast, Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories, which were first published in The Strand Magazine are an example of the feuilleton genre, i.e. published serially in a newspaper or magazine.

"The piecemeal publishing of books," observes R. M. Wiles, "was well established a hundred years before Dickens put pen to paper."3 Early serial publications were generally of five kinds: fascicle issue, cheap part reprints, [51/52] newspapers and magazines, installment fiction, and series."

Pickwick Papers and the Development of Serial Fiction, Robert L. Patten, Rice University Studies, page 51-2, https://scholarship.rice.edu/bitstream/handle/1911/63174/art...

The correct answer to the asker's question therefore depends on whether the installment of the work is published separately (fascicle) or in a newspaper or magazine (feuilleton).



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agree Bett
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