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T1 Jorge Luis Borges and the Debate of Translation
A1 Fernanda Rodríguez, Luisa
K1 Traducción e interpretación
K1 Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986
AB Most translations with which we are familiar have been performedwithin the Indoeuropean family of languages and the cultureof this linguistic domain is homogeneous. Most linguists have arrivedat the conclusion that translation from a language into anotheris possible at least in the field of universals.As a matter of fact, many linguists for whom the translationof the whole message within the text is impossible, distinguisha vast corpus of vocabulary in al! European languages which expressesthe identity of culture. The description of this identityof languages has been done by Whorf under the name of StandardAverage European. It seems obvious that translation ought to beconsidered not as confrontation of linguistic systems but as acontact and mutual interpenetration, bilinguism being the best wayfor these contacts.Jorge Luis Borges is perhaps the writer who represents thebest of this mode!. As you know, he lived in Switzerland, Italyand in Spain. He used to feel at home in several languages butEnglish and Spanish were simultaneously learnt, however he affirmsthat he is condemned to write in Spanish. He penetrateddifferent cultures. He delighted in spreading the sense of the foreign,of the mysteriously mixed. What is central in him is theidea of the writer as a guest, as ahuman being whose taskis to be sensitive to many strange currents, as a person whohas to keep the doors of his temporal rooms open, to let al!the winds enter. Although he considers the Spanish language hisíate, he used English words both in his writings and his talk.He used them for precision, when Spanish fails to fulfill his aspirationsto exactness.
PB universidad de leon
SN 1132-3191
YR 2017
FD 2017-06-07
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10612/6271
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10612/6271
DS BULERIA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de León
RD 05-may-2024