Povtornyï perevod, osobyï vid isskoustva. O "Stepnom korole Lire" ПОВТОРНЫЙ ПЕРЕВОД – ОСОБОЙ ВИД ИСКУССТВА. О «СТЕПНОМ КОРОЛЕ ЛИРЕ»

The writing of "Un Roi Lear des steppes" required a lot of preparation: Turgenev was interested in legal texts on donations, medical details concerning premonitory paralysis, as well as technical details relating to the construction of roofs. After presenting the theorical framework concerning self-translation and re-translation, we compare three French versions of the story, what we call the «semi-self-translation» of Turgenev (1872), a retransalation published in the «Bibliothèque de La Pléiade» (1986) and the last version made in Mons, published in 2018. We examine some translation’s choices (lexical, stylistic, even syntactic) by extracting details documented and collected by the author as well as some Russian cultural traits, since Turgenev wanted to «make his characters as Russian and as rustic as possible».