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Maria Velez
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Sep 26, 2007

Hi
I had a question, when making a translation, in this case a literary translation, is it useful to read criticism about the source text's author or book? Why or why not. Thank you.
 
Yvette Neisser Moreno
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yes Sep 26, 2007

I think it's useful to do as much research as you have time for. John Felstiner provides a good discussion of the reasons in his book "Translating Neruda." Basically, the more you know about the author's background, his/her previous works, the literary/historical context, even authors who have influenced your author--all this can only help you make appropriate choices in a translation.
 
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Is this a homework question? Sep 26, 2007

Maricristi wrote:
I had a question, when making a translation, in this case a literary translation, is it useful to read criticism about the source text's author or book? Why or why not.


Is this a homework question?
 
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Uhm... Sep 27, 2007

Maybe it's obvious, but some translations are BASED on criticism.

A new version often justifies itself on the inadequacies of a previous one. I don't mean that in an aggressive sense, but, for example, there are prose translations of poems. Other translations are based on variants of established source texts, and so forth.
 
lingomania
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I agree Oct 4, 2007

I tend to agree with Yvette above as long as you do not get influenced too much one way or the other with reading everything and/or anything on the matter.

Robert
 


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