Lettorato inglese M2. Exam.

(work in progress)

A linguistic-comparative study on dual identity: the stories of Ruth Klüger and Stefan Heym, fragmented souls searching for themselves."

"SELF-TRANSLATION.

Peluso Alessia

948847

English Lettorato exam

LM-94

University of Turin

Magistrale Dissertation

Outline

1. Definition

2. Raisons d'être

3. Doubleness

4. Constraints

5. My Meditations

6. References

1. Definition

• Ambiguity

• «The term “self-translation” can refer both to the act of translating one’s own writings into another language and the result of such an undertaking» (Grutman, 1998: 257).

External reasons:

• censorship
• editorial market demands
• address different linguistic communities

(Anselmi, 2012)

Highly labile categories:

Internal reasons:

• dissatisfaction with allograph translation (protection of one's work)

• ideological motivations
• quest for identity

2. Raisons d' être

3. Doubleness

• Double nature

• 1 language = 1 world

• Identity

• Personality

• Lens of language →Self-inquiry

4. Constraints

Mere translation or self-rewriting?

• Self-translator

• Creative freedom

5. My Meditations

• "Intellectual honesty"
• Same challenges
• Pain, frustration, inner conflict
• Self-rewriting → freedom and completeness

• Sensitivity

- When Nietzsche Wept: A novel of Obsession, Yalom Irvin D. (p. 68)

«It is not the truth that is holy, but the search for one's own truth. Can there be a more sacred act than self-inquiry?»

• Berni, B. & D’Atena, A. (2019). Autotraduzione: Motivi, studi, strategie. Ediz. italiana, inglese e tedesca. Istituto Italiano Studi Germanistici, Roma.
• Ceccherelli, A., Imposti, G. E. & Perotto, M. (Eds.). (2013). Autotraduzione e riscrittura. Bononia University Press, Bologna.
• Regattin, F., & Ferraro, A. (Eds.). (2019). Gli scrittori si autotraducono: Riflessioni, discorsi e conversazioni sull’autotraduzione da parte di chi la pratica. Emil di Odoya, Città di Castello.
• Regattin, F. (Ed.). (2020). Autotraduzione. Pratiche, teorie, storie. Autotraduction. Pratiques, théories, histoires. Emil di Odoya, Città di Castello.
• Bassnett, S. (2013). Translation Studies (4th ed.). Routledge, London-New York.

• Grutman, R. (2009). Self-translation. In M. Baker & G. Saldanha (Eds.), Routledge Encyclopedia of Translation Studies. Routledge, London-New York.
• Anselmi, S. (2012). On self-translation: An exploration in self-translators’ teloi and strategies. LED Edizioni Universitarie. Milano.

• Yalom, Irivin D. (2020). When Nietzsche wept: A Novel of Obsession. Harper Perennial Modern Classics. New York.
• Stavans, Ilan (2018). On Self-translation: Meditations on language. State University of New York Press, Albany.

• Tanqueiro, H. (1999). Un traductor privilegiado: el autotraductor. Quaderns. Revista de Traducció, (4), 129–136. https://www.raco.cat/index.php/QuadernsTraduccio/article/download/25182/25016

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6. References

THAnk you for your attention