Introduction [à la deuxième partie] Traduire/retraduire Thérèse d’Avila, les enjeux du Libro de la vida

This article presents the circumstances under which the Libro de la Vida has been translated–several times since the seventeenth century. Next explained is what led the author to create a new translation of this work on the occasion of the publication in 2012 by Bibliothèque de la Pléiade of a selection of texts by Teresa of Ávila and John of the Cross.