Louise Doutreligne’s Signé Pombo: a French dramatic transposition of the Manuel Vázquez Montalbán’s "Autobiografía del general Franco"

Abstract

Signé Pombo, also called Dans la peau de Franco, is a French dramatic creation by Louise Doutreligne which has been “freely inspired,” as it is stated on the edition cover, by Moi, Franco, the title with which the Autobiografía del general Franco by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán has been translated into French. This paper studies the creative transformations that Vázquez Montalbán’s narration has undergone, primarily attending to the quantitative changes, the rearrangement of the subject and the passage from a narrative polyphony to a scenic one. The study will ultimately examine to what extent the author has proceeded to those changes keeping in mind either a reading or a theatrical French reception.