Satyricon e tradução poética: traduções brasileiras perante sutilezas cruciais da poesia de Petrônio.

Abstract

Smart appropriations of Antiquity’s popular genres aggregated to a contesting exploration of the Greek-Roman canon from the time when Satyricon was written strengthen the thesis that the Petronius’ workmanship is before an ambitious literary project than a moralizing reaction to the age of Nero. According to some recent studies of theorists like Connors, Conte and Panayotakis, the combination of prose and verse in Satyricon is, for example, unusual and sophisticated. The exploration of some levels of language-manipulation and the complex punning web evidenced for such authors, instead of being only details that enrich the text, constitute in some cases the main existing literary work in it and imply a redoubled care to the translator. For inspiration of such studies and of the translation theories of Mounin, Berman and Britto, in this work four translations of the first one of the poems that appear amid the narrative of Satyricon are taken to the analysis and submitted to critique.