Truman Capote’s other Voices, other Rooms and Censorship in Communist Romania

• Authors: George Volceanov
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper presents the censored fragments of Mircea Ivănescu’s Romanian translation of Truman Capote’s Other Voices, Other Rooms, published by Univers Publishing House in 1978, as well as the translator’s (or the censor’s?) contribution to the “edulcoration” of certain details that did not comply with the Communist ethics of the late 1970s; it also discusses the reason why the Romanian version underwent a purging process at the time. Another issue tackled in the paper is the appraisal of Ivănescu’s merits and demerits as a renowned translator, in general, and as the translator of Capote’s novel, in particular.

Keywords

EN

gay literature; Communist ethics; censorship; Truman Capote; faithfulness to the original; redundancy; Mircea Ivănescu

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Linguaculture
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 2015
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 56-71

Dates

published

2015-06-01

online

2016-02-22

Contributors

author

George Volceanov

• “Spiru Haret” University, Bucharest

References

• Berendt, John. “Introduction.” Truman Capote. Other Voices, Other Rooms. Ebook. London: Vintage, 2007. Print.
• Capote, Truman. Other Voices, Other Rooms. London: Vintage, 2007.Ebook.
• Capote, Truman. Alte glasuri, alte încăperi. Romanian translation by Mircea Ivănescu. București: Univers, 1978. Print.
• Capote, Truman. Alte glasuri, alte încăperi. Romanian translation and notes by George Volceanov, Iași: Polirom, 2015. Print.
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• Romanowska, Agnieszka. “Mourner in the Forest of Arden: On Czesław Miłosz’s Translation of As You Like It.” Romanian translation by George Volceanov. Lettre Internationale (Romanian edition)88 (2014): 16-19. Print.
• Slide, Anthony. Lost Gay Novels: A Reference to Fifty Works from the First Half of the Twentieth Century. Binghamton, NY: Harrington Park Press, 2003. Print.

Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/lincu-2015-0036