Reinvented Worlds

Every translation is interpretation. Translation is justified in difference; it promotes invention in time and space. To translate is to travel from one way of being to another, it is to transform; forms are mobile, words, names, verbal sets move. Translations deny the empire of fixed communication,...

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Autor: Schüler, Donaldo
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC)
Repositorio:Cadernos de Tradução (Florianópolis. Online)
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:periodicos.ufsc.br:article/92166
Acceso en línea:https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/traducao/article/view/92166
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Finnegans Wake
Invention
James Joyce
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Sumario:Every translation is interpretation. Translation is justified in difference; it promotes invention in time and space. To translate is to travel from one way of being to another, it is to transform; forms are mobile, words, names, verbal sets move. Translations deny the empire of fixed communication, so division and plurality triumph. Given names have been integrated into literary invention since Greek antiquity. Joyce chooses names very carefully. Joycian names have significant associations in the source language; literally transposed into another language create pale meanings. The boldness of reinventing them favors the vitality of the translation. The watchman in “Circe” is in the position of the observer, the reader, the translator. To watch is to observe, to awaken from immobility. In “Circe”, strategies developed in Finnegans Wake emerge. I highlight new processes in the translation: streeita (street + narrow) alley – skiléticos (ski + skeletal) ...