Peeking Under the Covers

In the next post, I will start posting my translation, but before I get to that, I'd like to explain a few issues I ran into when translating and exploring Le rêve de Suzy ( Suzy's Dream ). As I mentioned in my last post, I explained that Henri Ardel's novel was pretty much written with an omniscient POV, although the story isn't as problematic as some other novels I've read written with that type of POV. I'll break down other issues I ran into: Exclamation Points -- I haven't researched whether what I came across in this novel was common for the time or not, but there were a few continuous problems I found with punctuation. One was the usage of exclamation points (!). They. Are. Everywhere. And that's no joke. Almost every piece of dialogue is bogged down by exclamation points. After a while, I couldn't tell what was supposed to be taken as a yell or an exciting moment or just a quiet thought. Also, exclamation points show up in what I think was pr...