QUANTITATIVE TRANSLATIONSCAPES AND CHRONOLOGICAL CONSTELLATIONS: FRENCH, SOVIET, AND AMERICAN NOVELS IN COMMUNIST ROMANIA

• Authors: Baghiu Stefan
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This article makes use of quantitative methods to chart the particular morphologies of translated novels in Romania after World War II. The three charts presented show the chronological shift in the preferences for translating novels in a comprehensive account of all the Russian (and Soviet), French, and American novels translated in Romania, demonstrating that the translations can be analysed through what Jordan A.Y. Smith convincingly argues to be a useful model in translation studies and world literature, namely translationscapes. Through use of an extensive database, the article illustrates which periods the novels translated in communist Romania originate from and describes three patterns of translation during communism according to David Damrosch’s approach to canon. It points towards a certain need for clarifying the circulation of the novel from a big data perspective, through what this study refers to as quantitative translationscapes.

Keywords

EN

TRANSLATIONSCAPE; TRANSLATION HISTORY; WORLD LITERATURE; ROMANIA

• Publisher: Institute of World Literature, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: World Literature Studies
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 13
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 117 - 129

Contributors

author

Baghiu Stefan

• Faculty of Letters and Arts, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Victoriei St. 5–7, Sibiu, Romania

• https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3442-1455

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/WLS.2021.13.3.11