How can we be source-oriented? Criticism of literalism in translation

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https://doi.org/10.26512/belasinfieis.v9.n5.2020.26640

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Literalism. Esthetics. Ideology. Literary creativity.

Abstract

Any consideration of literary translation as a creation begs the age old question of literalism that opposes source-oriented and target-oriented translators. In translating a literary work, the postulate of dichotomy indicates the operative choice between the ethnocultural (and linguistic) specificity of the original text and its inherent literary esthetic, within which textual rhythm is a central aspect among others. It seems that the insistance that is too often  put  on  the  intercultural  gap  is  more  or  less  overly  determined  by  ideological unthoughts. But the literary creativity of a translation is an esthetic and not an ideological  strategy.  Having  said  this,  the  very  idea  of  creativity  in  this  context  is  an  aporetic tendency, although it is definitely implemented in superior translations.

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Jean-René Ladmiral, do Institut de management et de communication interculturels de Paris (ISIT)

Professor do Institut de management et de communication interculturels de Paris (ISIT). Foi professor na Université Paris X Nanterre, França, e na Université de Genève, Suiça. Doutor em Filosofia pela Université de Paris-Nanterre. Linguista, Filósofo, Germanista, Tradutólogo, Tradutor de Kant, Jürgen Habermas, Theodor W. Adorno e Erich Fromm. Paris, Île-de-France, França.

Jaqueline Sinderski Bigaton, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

Doutoranda em Estudos da Tradução pela Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, bolsista CAPES ”“ PROEX. Mestre (2017) e Bacharel em Letras ”“ Língua Francesa e Literaturas de Língua Francesa (2014) em Estudos da Tradução pela mesma instituição. Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão, Pós-graduação em Estudos da Tradução. Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brasil.

André Luís Leite de Menezes, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

Mestrando em Estudos da Tradução pela Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, bolsista CAPES ”“ PROEX. Bacharel em Letras ”“ Língua Francesa e Literaturas de Língua Francesa (2018) pela mesma instituição. Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão, Pós-graduação em Estudos da Tradução. Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brasil.

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2020-10-31

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LADMIRAL, Jean-René; BIGATON, Jaqueline Sinderski; LEITE DE MENEZES, André Luís. How can we be source-oriented? Criticism of literalism in translation. Belas Infiéis, Brasília, Brasil, v. 9, n. 5, p. 229–246, 2020. DOI: 10.26512/belasinfieis.v9.n5.2020.26640. Disponível em: https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/belasinfieis/article/view/26640. Acesso em: 21 nov. 2024.

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Vol. 9 No. 5 (2020): Número regular não temático

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