Five poems from Noite nu Norte, by Fabián Severo

Abstract

Noite nu Norte (2010) is the first book written by Fabián Severo (1981), a Uruguayan author who, since his first publication, writes in Portuñol. This mutable language comes from the mixture of inventiveness and heritage, which de(re)territorializes the border of Artigas and Quaraí, between North and South. At the same time, the work is coetaneous of several literary manifestations of the Portuñol. In regard of the translation, some of them have been translated into another language by recreating their hybridism; its weave can be sewed by combining elements from Portuguese, Guarani, Spanish, English, Italian etc. In Severo's writing, the destructive-inventive relation of the language tensions the Portuguese and the Spanish and moves in an inter-place that can work differently depending on who is reading it. Therefore, we propose translations of five poems from Noite nu Norte based on the premise of destabilizing translation boundaries between Portuñol and Portuguese.