The novels Vengeance du traducteur and Les Nègres du traducteur, by Brice Matthieussent and Claude Bleton respectively, play with the traditional hierarchies between author and translator, original and translation, thereby illustrating at the levels of both plot and narration a facet of translation that has often gone unrecognized, namely its deviant, subversive, and transgressive nature, which, in turn, is conducive to a questioning of translation’s generic status as well as its relationship to the original.