A poem as a translator's note in Anne Carson's Bakkhai
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https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-7968.2024.e104240Keywords:
Poetry translation, Paratext, Anne CarsonAbstract
This article presents an annotated translation of the poem "i wish i were two dogs then i could play with me (translator’s note on euripedes’ bakkhai)", by Anne Carson (2015) – the writing with which the Canadian author introduces her translation of Euripides' Bakkhai. On the one hand, it comments on and discusses the formal and semantic solutions adopted in the transit of the poem between English and Portuguese, according to the methodology developed by Paulo Henriques Britto (2006, 2015). The commentary on the translation also discusses, on the other hand, the very status of the poem as a translation note: it reflects on the apparent performative contradiction implied in Anne Carson's gesture, considering the surprising tenor of her poem-note, the relationships it maintains with the subsequent translation and the place it assumes in the broader context of Anne Carson’s translation practices and reflections.
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