“But just, let’s say, the closing of a book”: the last night of the world by Ray Bradbury
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https://doi.org/10.26512/belasinfieis.v10.n3.2021.33177Keywords:
Science fiction. Short story. Literary translation. Cold War. Covid-19 pandemic.Abstract
This paper presents our translation into Brazilian Portuguese of the short story “The Last Night of the World by Ray Bradbury (1920-2012), originally published in the collection The Illustrated Man (1951). The story is set through a couple’s dialogue in which both are aware that the world will end that very night. The preface to the translation presents a brief parallel between the context of the original story, the United States in the 1950’s in the beginning of the Cold War, and the current context of the covid-19 pandemic and of politic polarization.
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Bradbury, R. (1955) A derradeira noite. In R. Bradbury. O homem ilustrado. (E. da Costa, Trad.) Edição Livros do Brasil. (Tradução de: The Illustrated Man, 1951)
Bradbury, R. (1951) A última noite. In R. Bradbury. Uma sombra passou por aqui. (R. Jungmann, Trad.) Record. (Tradução de: The Illustrated Man, 1951)
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