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LES « TACHES BLANCHES » DANS LA CARTOGRAPHIE DE LA TRADUCTION: OEUVRES JAMAIS OU PEU TRADUITES, TRADUCTIONS SANS SUCCE ̀S D’OE UVRES PRESTIGIEUSES

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Albrecht J.

World Literature Studies

2021

vol. 13

issue 3

81 - 92

Historiographers of translation have made great efforts to identify translations of more or less famous works, to sift through them and to give precise descriptions, which quite often involve value judgements. The history of translation is – with a few exceptions – a history of success. What interest us here, on the other hand, are the failures and shortcomings that can be observed in this field, a dangerous subject of investigation insofar as it leads to risky speculations. Why have certain works, considered to be an integral part of the original literature, found little or no response from readers of other languages? Is this due to intrinsic characteristics of the works in question or, at least partly, to unpredictable reactions of the translation market? Is there a literary production that is less suitable for translation than another, or do translators, with their specific predilections and skills, influence the balance of exchange between different literatures, often unintentionally? The focus of this article is on classical French tragedy and a few German authors who are appreciated by German speakers but little known elsewhere.

Franz Kafka auf Englisch und in einigen romanischen Sprachen. Übersetzungstheoretische Überlegungen zwischen Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaf

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Albrecht J.

Slovo a smysl - Word & Sense

2020

vol. 17

issue 1

135-150

The frame of reference for this article on Kafka’s translations into various European languages is the author’s conception of translation studies as a three-stage (‘three-storey’) structure: translation technique (‘ground floor’); translation strategy (‘bel étage’ or ‘main floor’); and translation business, i. e. translation as an organized institution (‘top floor’). The ‘ground floor’ deals with the purely linguistic particularities of Kafka’s texts and the difficulties they present to translators of different target languages. The ‘bel étage’ or ‘main floor’ deals with the genuinely translational decisions made within the framework of what is linguistically possible in order to make the typical ‘kafkaesque’ kind of writing recognizable in other languages. Finally, the ‘top floor’ shows how translations into various languages have helped to make Kafka one of the world’s great writers.

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LES « TACHES BLANCHES » DANS LA CARTOGRAPHIE DE LA TRADUCTION: OEUVRES JAMAIS OU PEU TRADUITES, TRADUCTIONS SANS SUCCE ̀S D’OE UVRES PRESTIGIEUSES

Franz Kafka auf Englisch und in einigen romanischen Sprachen. Übersetzungstheoretische Überlegungen zwischen Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaf