In Search of Lost Time. (TIME January 14, 2008)

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The land of Proust, Monet, Piaf and Truffaut has lost its status as a cultural superpower. Can France regain its past glory?

Autumn means many things in many countries, but in France it signals the dawn of a new cultural year.
And nobody takes culture more seriously than the French. They subsidize it generously; they cosset it with quotas and tax breaks. French media give it vast amount of airtime and column inches. Even fashion magazines carry serious book reviews, and Nov.5 announcement of the Prix Goncourt--one of more than 900 French literary prizes--was front-page news across the country.
There is one problem. All of these mighty oaks being felled in France's cultural forest make barely a sound in the wider world. Once admired for the dominating excellence of its writers, artists and musicians, France today is a wilting power in the global cultural marketplace.

A. 어휘
status 지위. dawn 새벽. subsidize 보조금을 지불하다.
cosset 귀여워하다, 응석을 받아주다. tax breaks 세금 우대조치. airtime 방영시간.
column inches 紙面(지면). literary prizes 文學賞(문학상). mighty 강력한.
fell 나무를 베어 넘기다(fell-felled-felled). barely 거의 ...않다.
dominate 지배하다. wilt 시들다. wilting power 시들어 가고 있는 强國(강국).

B. 구문
-oakes being felled....,=oaks which are being felled. “being felled. . .”는 oak를 수식하는 분사의 형용사적 용법.
[“프랑스 문화의 숲에서 베이지고 있는 이 모든 강력한 참나무들(문화의 수확물들)”]
-Once admired, 분사구문. =once having been admired=Once it was admired.
[“한때는 작가와 화가와 음악가들의 압도적인 우수성으로 찬탄을 받았지만,”]

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Only a handful of the season's new novels will find a publisher outside France. Fewer than a dozen make it to the U.S. in a typical year, while about 30% of all fiction sold in France is translated from English. (That's about the same percentage as in Germany, but there the total number of English translations has nearly halved in the past decade, while it's still growing in France.) Earlier generations of French writers--from Moliere, Hugo, Balzac and Flaubert to Proust, Sartre, Camus and Marlaux--did not lack for an audience abroad.**
France's movie industry, the world's largest a century ago, has yet to recapture its New Wave eminence of the 1960s, when directors like Francois Truffaut and Jean-LucGodard were rewriting cinematic rules. France still churns out about 200 films a year, more than any other country in Europe. But most French movies are amiable, low-budget trifles for the domestic market. American films account for nearly half the tickets sold in French cinemas.**

A. 어휘
a handful of 소수의. publisher 출판사, 출판업자.
a typical year 대표적인 해(여러 해의 평균). lack for 부족하다. audience 청중, 독자.
yet 아직도. has yet to recapture 아직도 되찾지 못하고 있다.
New Wave 누벨 바그: 1950년대 후반부터 프랑스영화계의 젊은 영화인들을 중심으로 일어난 운동.
eminence 탁월. churn 攪乳器(교유기),攪拌(교반), 세게 휘 젖다. 만들어 내다.
amiable 상냥한, 사랑할만한, budget 예산. trifle 시시한 것, 소작품, 小曲(소곡).
domestic market 국내시장. account for ...에 책임이 있다.

B. 구문
-make it (to) 에 성공하다, (어떤 일)을 이루다.
-all fiction sold in France = all fiction which is sold in France 프랑스에서 판매되는 모든 소설
-has nearly halved 거의 반으로 줄어들었다.
-when =and then