Vol. 4 No. 2(8) (2024)

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.46991/TSTP/2024.4.2
Published: 2024-12-21

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  • Articles

    The Coming of Age Novel in Ukrainian Translation: Challenges and Solutions

    Artur Gudmanian, Andriana Ivanova
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    The present paper makes at attemp to analyse the genre of the coming of age novel in the light of modern translation studies. The research is based on the Ukrainian translation of the coming of age novel “The Queen’s Gambit” by Walter Tevis. The dominant genre peculairities such as the issue of upbringing, symbolism realized in the depiction of chess game and the author`s peculiarities of character portrayal have been analyzed. Contextual substitution, transposition, concretization, omission, addition, antonymic translation are considered to be the dominant translation transformations used by the translator to convey the genre specificity of the coming of age novel.

    References

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    Zarva B. (2014) Stanovlennia, evoliutsiia i osoblyvosti romanu vykhovannia. Naukovi zapysky Berdiaskoho derzhavnoho universytetu universytetu. Ser. Filolohichni nauky. Vyp. 2. P. 5-14. URL: http://nbuv.gov.ua/UJRN/nzbdpufn_2014_2_3

    Ptyloliuk, S. (2004) Zhanrovi osoblyvosti romanu vykhovannia. Ternopil : Vydavets Starodubets, 48 p.

    Millard, K. (2007) Coming of Age in Contemporary American Fiction. Edinburgh University Press. 200 p.

    Tevis, W (2021). Khid korolevy. Kharkiv : Knyzhkovyi klub “Klub simeiinoho dozvillia”, 2021. 352 p.

    Tevis, W (2014). The Queen`s Gambit. RosettaBooks, 2014. 291 p.

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    Polish and English Translations of Horst Bienek and the Question of Silesian Identity

    Daniel Pietrek
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    Horst Bienek (1930-1990) was one of the greatest German writers of the twentieth century. He was born in Gleiwitz, in Upper Silesia, and his works contain many references to Silesian culture and language. This, however, is often overlooked in his translations, both into Polish and English. It seems that Bienek’s Germanness is overwhelming for his translators who see in him a contemporary embodiment of Sehnsuht – a nostalgic desire for the past. However, the most important aspect of Bienek’s writing is his multiculturalism, expressed in the use of toponyms, but also dialectical lexical elements. They play an important role in the work of the Upper Silesian writer, because thanks to them it is possible to express the historical truth of the complicated relations between Poles, Silesians and Germans.

    References

    Ahrens, Thomas. 2000. Auf der Suche nach der Heimat: Horst Bieneks Gleiwitzer Tetralogie. Michigan: UMI.

    Bienek, Horst. 1983. Beschreibung einer Provinz. Aufzeichnungen. Materialien. Dokumente. München.

    Bienek, Horst. 1984. The First Polka. Translated by Ralph R. Read. San Francisco: Fjord Press.

    Bienek, Horst. 1986. Der Blinde in der Bibliothek. Literarische Portraits. München.

    Bienek, Horst. 1987. “Das allmähliche Ersticken von Schreien. Sprache und Exil heute.” Münchner Poetik-Vorlesungen. München.

    Bienek, Horst. 1987. The Gradual Stifling of Screams: Language and Exile Today. Munich Poetics Lectures. Munich.

    Bienek, Horst. 1989. Selected Poems 1957–1987. Translated by Ruth Mead, Matthew Mead, and Eva Hesse; with an introduction by Hans Bender. Greensboro: Unicorn Press.

    Bienek, Horst. 1993. Journey to Childhood. Reunion with Silesia. Munich/Gliwice.

    Bienek, Horst. 2000. “Die erste Polka. ” In Bienek, Horts: Gleiwitz. Eine oberschlesische Chronik in vier Romanen. München.

    Bienek, Horst. 2000. “Die erste Polka.” In Gleiwitz. Eine oberschlesische Chronik in vier Romanen. Munich.

    Bienek, Horst. 2008. Pierwsza polka. Translated by Maria Przybyłowska. Gliwice: Wydawnictwo “Wokół nas.”

    Bienek, Horst. 2013. Workuta. Göttingen.

    Böll, Heinrich. 1975. “Das Schmerzliche an Oberschlesien.” Frankfurter Rundschau, October 11.

    Bourdieu, Pierre. 2007. Reguły sztuki. Geneza i struktura pola literackiego [Rules of Art. Origin and Structure of the Literary Field]. Kraków.

    Capote, Truman. 1994. Other Voices, Other Rooms. New York.

    Frühwald, Wolfgang. 1985. “Sprache als Heimat: Zum Verhältnis von Erinnerung und Geschichte im Werk Horst Bieneks.” Loccumer Protokolle 1983, 30: 42–56.

    Joachimsthaler, Jürgen. 2012. “Das Atmen der Sätze in der Enge des Wort-Raums. Zu Horst Bieneks Schreibweise.” In Horst Bienek – Ein Schriftsteller in den Extremen des 20. Jahrhunderts, edited by Reinhard Laube and Verena Nolte. Göttingen.

    Kalow, Gert. 1966. “Poetry as Document: ‘was war was ist’ – New Poems by Horst Bienek.” FAZ, December 31.

    Krüger, Michael (Ed.). 1980. Bienek lesen. Munich.

    Lewandowski, Jan F. 2012. “Czterdziestu wybiera kanon” [Forty Choose the Canon]. Fabryka Silesia 1: 15–17.

    Morita, Linda G. 1988. Wandlungen von Stil und Themen im Werk Horst Bieneks. University of South California, August.

    Orłowski, Hubert. 2000. “Überwachung und Ausgrenzung: Horst Bienek, Das allmähliche Ersticken von Schreien. Sprache und Exil heute.” In Literatur und Herrschaft – Herrschaft und Literatur. Opole.

    Pietrek, Daniel. 2012. Ich erschreibe mich selbst. (Autor)Biografisches Schreiben bei Horst Bienek. Dresden.

    Pietrek, Daniel. 2022. “Hinter diesen oft grellen Kulissen spielte sich sein anderes Leben ab, sein Leben voller: Solidarität und Freundlichkeit, sein entschiedenes Eintreten für andere…” Wer hat Angst vor Multikulturalität? Erfahrungen und Vorstellungen in der deutschen und polnischen Kultur. Edited by Hans-Jürgen Bömelburg and Izabela Surynt. Wiesbaden: Studien zur Multikulturalität, vol. 5: 275–286.

    Pietrek, Daniel. 2023. “Horst Bieneks oberschlesische Bilder (Schlesien).” Von Popkultur bis Stereotyp. Handbuch der deutsch-polnischen Kommunikation. Teilband 3, edited by Sylwia Dec-Pustelnik et al. Wiesbaden: Studien zur Multikulturalität 1(3): 139–162.

    Laube, Reinhard, and Nolte, Verena (Eds.). 2012. Horst Bienek – Ein Schriftsteller in den Extremen des 20. Jahrhunderts. Göttingen.

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    A Literata Translator from Russian into Italian: Enrichetta Capecelatro Carafa, Duchess of Andria

    Giulia Marcucci
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    In this paper, I focus on the writer and translator Enrichetta Capecelatro Carafa (1863-1941), who signed all her translations from Russian into Italian, from the 1920s until her death, with the pseudonym Duchess of Andria. Reconstructing the trajectory of this prolific and talented translator means shedding light on one of the many profiles of women translators who worked hard in the early decades of the 20th century to introduce foreign literature into Italy. The case of the Duchess of Andria is emblematic, and at the same time original, for how she approached literary translation, for the number of translations she signed, and for the valuable legacy, still partly unexplored, that she left in the field of translations from Russian. The aim of this work is therefore to document a significant case study, with a brief foray into the field of translation criticism of Chekhov's short stories, translated and prefaced by the Duchess and published in 1936 by Utet.

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    Sorina, Marina. 2009. La Russia nello specchio dell’editoria italiana nel ventennio fascista: bibliografie, scelte e strategie. Tesi di Dottorato di ricerca in letterature straniere e scienza della letteratura, ciclo XX, Università di Verona.

    Baldini, Anna, Marcucci, Giulia. 2023, ed. by, La donna invisibile. Traduttrici nell’Italia del primo Novecento. Macerata: Quodlibet.

    Bassi, Giulia. 2023. “Natalia Ginzburg (1916-1991)”, in La donna invisibile. Traduttrici nell’Italia del primo Novecento, ed. Anna Baldini and Giulia Marcucci, Macerata: Quodlibet, 183-195.

    Berman, Antoine. 1995. Pour une critique des traductions: John Donne. Paris: Gallimard.

    Bèghin, Laurent. 2007. “Leone Ginzburg russista”, in Da Gobetti a Ginzburg. Diffusione e ricezione della cultura russa nella Torino del primo dopoguerra. Brussels-Rome: Istituto storico belga di Roma, 403-446.

    Capecelatro, Enrichetta (Carafa Duchessa d’Andria), Cinque quaderni di memorie autobiografiche, Sezione «Rari e manoscritti». Naples: Biblioteca Nazionale di Napoli (ms XX, 2-16. Reg. n. 535347-535365).

    Caratozzolo, Marco. 2011. “Note sull’attività di Enrichetta Carafa d’Andria nell’ambito della russistica italiana”, in Il territorio della parola russa. Immagini, ed. Rossanna Casari, Ugo Persi, Maria Chiara Pesenti. Salerno: Vereja, pp. 53-70.

    Čechov, Anton. 1936. Novelle. Translated by Duchessa d’Andria. Milan: Utet.

    Čukovskij, Kornej. 2007 [1915]. O Čechove. Moskva: Russkij put’.

    Fantappiè, Irene. 2023. “Autorialità femminile e questione della donna tra Italia e Austria a inizio Novecento”, in La donna invisibile. Traduttrici nell’Italia del primo Novecento, ed. Anna Baldini and Giulia Marcucci. Macerata: Quodlibet, 19-33.

    Ginzburg, Leone. 1928. “Celebrazioni fattive di Lev Tosltoj”. Il Baretti, V, 12: 57-58, now in Id. (2000), Scritti, ed. Domenico Zucàro. Torino: Einaudi, 269-277.

    Gogol’, Nikolaj. 1937. Tarass Bulba – Il pastrano. Translated by Duchessa d’Andria. Milan: Utet.

    Grizzuti, Maria Rosaria (edited by). 1991. Ricordi fiorentini, romani e napoletani di Enrichetta Capecelatro and Gli anni napoletani, in Ricordi napoletani. Uomini, scene, tradizioni antiche 1850-1920, ed. Gaetano Fiorentino. Naples: Electa, 11-24 and 25-64.

    Lo Gatto, Ettore. 1921. “Letterature straniere in Italia”. L’Italia che scrive IV, 8: 167-168.

    Marcucci, Giulia. 2022. Čechov in Italia. La duchessa d’Andria e altre traduzioni (1905-1936). Macerata: Quodlibet.

    Marcucci, Giulia. 2020. “Traduzioni Einaudi di Guerra e pace”. Allegoria, XXXII, 81: 223-235.

    Sisto, Michele. 2023. “Invisibili? Il riconoscimento della figura del traduttore nel campo letterario italiano del primo Novecento”, in La donna invisibile. Traduttrici nell’Italia del primo Novecento, ed. Anna Baldini and Giulia Marcucci. Macerata: Quodlibet, 19-33.

    Sorina, Marina. 2009. La Russia nello specchio dell’editoria italiana nel ventennio fascista: bibliografie, scelte e strategie. Tesi di Dottorato di ricerca in letterature straniere e scienza della letteratura, ciclo XX, Università di Verona.

    Baldini, Anna, Marcucci, Giulia. 2023, ed. by, La donna invisibile. Traduttrici nell’Italia del primo Novecento. Macerata: Quodlibet.

    Bassi, Giulia. 2023. “Natalia Ginzburg (1916-1991)”, in La donna invisibile. Traduttrici nell’Italia del primo Novecento, ed. Anna Baldini and Giulia Marcucci, Macerata: Quodlibet, 183-195.

    Berman, Antoine. 1995. Pour une critique des traductions: John Donne. Paris: Gallimard.

    Bèghin, Laurent. 2007. “Leone Ginzburg russista”, in Da Gobetti a Ginzburg. Diffusione e ricezione della cultura russa nella Torino del primo dopoguerra. Brussels-Rome: Istituto storico belga di Roma, 403-446.

    Capecelatro, Enrichetta (Carafa Duchessa d’Andria), Cinque quaderni di memorie autobiografiche, Sezione «Rari e manoscritti». Naples: Biblioteca Nazionale di Napoli (ms XX, 2-16. Reg. n. 535347-535365).

    Caratozzolo, Marco. 2011. “Note sull’attività di Enrichetta Carafa d’Andria nell’ambito della russistica italiana”, in Il territorio della parola russa. Immagini, ed. Rossanna Casari, Ugo Persi, Maria Chiara Pesenti. Salerno: Vereja, pp. 53-70.

    Čechov, Anton. 1936. Novelle. Translated by Duchessa d’Andria. Milan: Utet.

    Čukovskij, Kornej. 2007 [1915]. O Čechove. Moskva: Russkij put’.

    Fantappiè, Irene. 2023. “Autorialità femminile e questione della donna tra Italia e Austria a inizio Novecento”, in La donna invisibile. Traduttrici nell’Italia del primo Novecento, ed. Anna Baldini and Giulia Marcucci. Macerata: Quodlibet, 19-33.

    Ginzburg, Leone. 1928. “Celebrazioni fattive di Lev Tosltoj”. Il Baretti, V, 12: 57-58, now in Id. (2000), Scritti, ed. Domenico Zucàro. Torino: Einaudi, 269-277.

    Gogol’, Nikolaj. 1937. Tarass Bulba – Il pastrano. Translated by Duchessa d’Andria. Milan: Utet.

    Grizzuti, Maria Rosaria (edited by). 1991. Ricordi fiorentini, romani e napoletani di Enrichetta Capecelatro and Gli anni napoletani, in Ricordi napoletani. Uomini, scene, tradizioni antiche 1850-1920, ed. Gaetano Fiorentino. Naples: Electa, 11-24 and 25-64.

    Lo Gatto, Ettore. 1921. “Letterature straniere in Italia”. L’Italia che scrive IV, 8: 167-168.

    Marcucci, Giulia. 2022. Čechov in Italia. La duchessa d’Andria e altre traduzioni (1905-1936). Macerata: Quodlibet.

    Marcucci, Giulia. 2020. “Traduzioni Einaudi di Guerra e pace”. Allegoria, XXXII, 81: 223-235.

    Sisto, Michele. 2023. “Invisibili? Il riconoscimento della figura del traduttore nel campo letterario italiano del primo Novecento”, in La donna invisibile. Traduttrici nell’Italia del primo Novecento, ed. Anna Baldini and Giulia Marcucci. Macerata: Quodlibet, 19-33.

    Sorina, Marina. 2009. La Russia nello specchio dell’editoria italiana nel ventennio fascista: bibliografie, scelte e strategie. Tesi di Dottorato di ricerca in letterature straniere e scienza della letteratura, ciclo XX, Università di Verona.

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    Key Cultural Texts and Translation as a Creative Act of Cultural Mediation

    Loreta Ulvydiene Huber
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    This research was carried out with reference to AHRC (UK) funded network project “Translating Cultures” 2014-2018.[1] The project aimed to underscore the role of language, rhetoric, and semiotics in both textual and non-textual communication, examining these concepts in their “initial expressions” and through their translations and reinterpretations across different languages and mediums. Translating cultural texts is among the most challenging tasks for a translator, as it involves navigating numerous cultural nuances and differences. Poetry, in particular, is the most challenging genre to translate. This research focuses on Antanas Baranauskas’s lyrical Romantic poem Anykščių Šilelis (En. The Forest of Anykščiai), chosen because (1) it is a key cultural text written in East High Lithuanian dialect that portrays the former beauty of a pine grove near Baranauskas’s village and its destruction under the Russian rule,. symbolising Lithuania’s struggles under the Tsarist regime and, (2) it is one of the most frequently translated Lithuanian works, with versions in 19 languages. The study delves into two English translations by Nadas Rastenis (1956) and Peter Tempest (1985), highlighting the different strategies each translator employed. The results of the study demonstrate that translation is never neutral; each decision made by the translator reflects both the original culture and the target audience’s culture, resulting in a text that serves as a conduit for understanding across linguistic and cultural boundaries.

     

    [1] More information is available at https://www.bbk.ac.uk/news/ahrc-funded-research-project-translating-cultures.

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    Self-Translation and the Translator’s (In)visibility in Nabokov’s Pnin (1957)

    Michele Russo
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    Nabokovian scholarship has consistently emphasised the plurilingual aspects in Nabokov’s oeuvre. His American novels frequently include numerous sentences in Russian and French, which are often translated or discussed from a metalinguistic angle by the author. A remarkable example in this regard is the autobiography Speak, Memory. An Autobiography Revisited (1966), which conjures up various places where Nabokov spent different periods of his life, along with the languages overlapping in his European memoirs.

        Considering that the coexistence of foreign terms and expressions is common in Nabokov’s works, this article aims to analyse the linguistic architecture and aspects of self-translation in one of his American novels, Pnin. While this study dwells on the numerous grammatical and phonetic inaccuracies that feature in the protagonist’s dialogues, it also means to investigate the issue pertaining to the translator’s (in)visibility in the text. The analysis will be carried out in light of Venuti’s (2018) theories, which foreground the crucial yet often overlooked role of the translator, particularly in contexts where translation is domesticated. By quoting various examples of self-translated expressions from the novel, as well as grammatical and phonetic mistakes, the article traces the linguistic borders in the story, shedding light on the work of the translator, whose presence becomes discernible through the foreignizing effect generated by the numerous non-English words, mistakes and inaccuracies. The work thus engages with the issue of Nabokov’s (in)visibility in the story, since the translator’s presence is not always detectable as the storyline progresses.

         The alternation of domestication and foreignization, linguistic adaptation and estrangement, is infused with the writer’s investigation into his linguistic past which, in Cronin’s (2013, 19) words, sheds light on the “historical sense” of the languages employed. The exploration of Nabokov’s linguistic past, expressed through numerous foreignisms, paves the way for an analysis of the writer’s double, thereby providing a more nuanced illustration of Nabokov’s linguistic transition.

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    Trans-Translation and Risk Management: The Nigerian Perspective

    Muhammad Zayyanu Zaki, Anthony Chunononye Nwanjoku, Atiku Sani
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    Abstract

    This paper sets out to explore the various risks involved in translating, and how these risks can be overcome to achieve the ultimate goal of translation. There are risks involved in translating, and the concept of equivalence has often been a complex issue among translation experts and theorists due to the cultural dimension involved in languages. Communication is translation as it is a process of translating an idea or message from one language to another. The researchers noted that managing high risks pose various difficulties in translation. The researcher applied analytical theory and an interpretative approach to arrive at a meaningful and acceptable solution. The risk management in translation came into play as what equivalence represents. Risk management often involves in the planning, concerning strategic decision-making and execution of projects and programmes of the task. The authors observed that the translator tries to minimise risk by focusing on the most important factors that can be avoided possibly because each language sees things differently.

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    Im Wald, im Holzhaus by Michael Krüger and Its Polish Translation: Translation as Intervention

    Paweł Marcinkiewicz
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    This article deals with the Polish translation of the poetry volume by the German poet Michael Krüger, Im Wald, im Holzhaus. German translations, although present in Poland since the Middle Ages, have been characterized by a certain foreignness since the Romantic era. This resulted from the fact that German culture was perceived as hostile and threatening in Poland, which reflected numerous wars and conflicts between the two states. It seems that in recent years this attitude has been changing, as evidenced by the Polish edition of Krüger’s collection of poems. Moreover, publishing the book in 2023 might be seen as an intervention against the political situation in Poland where the conservative government tried to escalate Polish-German animosities.

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