Translate and recreate. Aurora Venturini’s strategies in Cantos de Maldoror: Satánica Trinidad

Abstract

This article aims at examining some aspects of the Argentine writer Aurora Venturini’s translation of Les chants de Maldoror, which was published in 2007 with the title Cantos de Maldoror: Satánica Trinidad. The analysis of this book shows that the activity of translation plays a role that exceeds linguistic transposition from one language into another: fidelity to the letter and equivalence between two languages are not a priority for the Argentine translator. The way she works the foreign text is related to the hermeneutical approach. Venturini’s translation is, in fact, a translation-recreation (OSEKI-DÉPRÉ, 1999) or a translation-imitation (OSEKI-DÉPRÉ, 1999), a derivative text that depends on the critical reading of Ducasse’s work, of its production and reception contexts and the study of the author biography.