From Dostoevsky to Yeltsin: Failed Translations and Russian Literary Landings in the Irish Language

Muireann Maguire

doi:10.11606/issn.2317-4765.rus.2020.178520

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Muireann Maguire University of Exeter https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7615-6720

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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2317-4765.rus.2020.178520

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Literatura russa, Tradução, Língua irlandesa, Prizemlenie, Fiódor Dostoiévski

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Este artigo propõe a metáfora da prizemliénie (aterrissagem) como uma nova abordagem investigativa para os Estudos de Tradução. A prizemliénie se refere a textos literários que “aterrissam” no campo literário da língua de chegada sem que adquiram um público-leitor amplo ou que se integrem à cultura de chegada. Tendo o foco na tradução literária do russo ao irlandês, acompanho o registro de atividades do An Gúm, a organização oficial para publicações do Estado Livre Irlandês, com atenção para o que diz respeito à tradução literária; realizo um close reading e um estudo do caso da primeira tradução de Dostoiévski em língua irlandesa, feita em 1938; e examino o habitus de três dos tradutores literários mais significativos do russo para o irlandês. Na conclusão, argumento que até mesmo a interação cultural mínima mantida pela prizemliénie desepenha um papel importante na preservação da língua de chegada.

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Muireann Maguire, University of Exeter

Senior Lecturer in Russian Literature at the University of Exeter, UK. Principal Investigator on the ERC-funded Horizon 2020 project “RusTrans: The Dark Side of Translation: 20th and 21st Century Translation from Russian as a Political Phenomenon in the UK, Ireland, and the USA.” She has previously taught Russian literatu-re and language at the Universi-ties of Oxford, Cambridge, and at Queen Mary, University of London.

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De Dostoiévski a Ieltsin: traduções malsucedidas e aterrissagens literárias russas na língua irlandesa

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