Na dnu strani? Nejezikovne prevajalske opombe v izbranih prevodih novele Balada o trobenti in oblaku Cirila Kosmača
Journal Title: Przekłady Literatur Słowiańskich - Year 2017, Vol 8, Issue 1
Abstract
The translator’s notes in the Serbian, Russian, Polish, and German translations of the novella Balada o trobenti in oblaku (The Ballad of the Trumpet and the Cloud), written by a Slovenian writer, Ciril Kosmač, differ with regard to their formal and content features: the Serbian, Russian, and Polish translations contain footnotes; the German translation, on the other hand, has endnotes; content-wise, among the analysed texts, the Serbian translation occupies a special position, being the only one without the non-linguistic notes. The number of all the non-linguistic notes, explaining historical, mythological, geographical elements and everyday items, is relatively low — the Polish translation has eight such explicative notes, the Russian translation six and the German one has four; their absence in the Serbian translation may be a result of a higher socio-cultural proximity between Serbia and Slovenia in the 20th century. Despite their low number, the non-linguistic translator’s notes appear to be a very complex translation technique in the analysed translations ot Kosmač’s novella: on the one hand, they represent explanatory paratexts, added to facilitate the target reader’s comprehension of different text elements (even with a low narrative importance); on the other hand, however, they also enable the preservation of the source-text elements, contributing in such a way to the source-text orientation; translator’s notes are also a channel through which the translator and his wider socio-cultural background enter the target text in a more explicit way. The analysis of particular translations and their comparison has revealed also an intricate competition between translator’s notes and other translation techniques.
Authors and Affiliations
Robert Grošelj
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP295185
- DOI -
- Views 50
- Downloads 0
Tłumaczenia niektórych tekstów współczesnej prozy polskiej na język czeski — przyczynek do dialogu kultur
In his paper, the author deals with the topic of rendering the contemporary Polish literature, created after the year 1989, into the Czech language. He reminds the reader of certain facts from the literary life of the la...
Bibliografia przekładów literatury bułgarskiej w Polsce w latach 1990—2006 (uzupełnienia)
The bibliography of translations of Bulgarian literature in Poland from 1990 to 2006 (appendix)
Epizod szczeciński w prozie Bohumila Hrabala. Rzecz o granicach tłumaczenia / The Szczecin Episode in Bohumil Hrabal’s Prose On the Limits of Translation
The object of the analysis is the so-called Szczecin episode in its many variants. The episode plays a significant role in interpreting the novel Too Loud a Solitude, the Czech version of which is a source text for a num...
Rola posłowia w przekładzie Herztier Herty Müller na język czeski
This article deals with the relevance of paratexts in translation based on the example of the afterword in the Czech translation of Herta Müller’s novel Herztier [The Land of Green Plums], titled Srdce bestie and written...
Lektura anagramatyczna a przekład (zmagania translatorskie z wierszem Krešimira Bagicia la folie de saussure)
The starting point for the presented elaboration on translation is the concept of Ferdinand de Saussure’s anagrams. Anagrams consist of a certain phoneme or group of phonemes repeated in the literary work. They form a ce...