The Universal and the Exotic in the Reception of Rewritings and Translations of Grande Sertão: Veredas in Germany
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Translation Studies. Literary translation. Rewriting. Retranslation. Guimarães Rosa.Abstract
This article aims to investigate some of the processes of rewriting and retranslation that João Guimarães Rosa's novel, Grande Sertão: Veredas (1956), has undergone and is undergoing, with a focus on the reception of the translations of the book into German and on statements of the actors involved in the different rewriting processes analyzed. The analysis will be based on André Lefevere's (1992) elaborations on rewriting and Álvaro Faleiros and Thiago Mattos's (2017) elaborations on retranslation. The study starts with the thesis of Grande Sertão: Veredas (1956) as a critical rewriting of Os Sertões (1902), by Euclides da Cunha, the first translation into German, Grande Sertão: Roman (1964), by Curt Meyer-Clason, and the retranslation project - not yet finalized - by Berthold Zilly. During this course, it is proposed an analysis of the rewritings of Grande Sertão: Veredas as manipulations that can motivate readings of the work from a more exotic or universal point of view. The study begins with the more exoticizing view of the sertão and its people, present in Os Sertões; moves on to the more universal dimension given to the sertão in Grande Sertão: Veredas; up to Meyer-Clason's first translation, seen again as leaning towards exoticism; and concludes with Zilly's retranslation, which even before its publication can already be seen as a more universal rewriting.
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