Erring with Prévert: Commentary on brazilian portuguese translations Of “Mea Culpa” by Silviano Santiago and Mário Laranjeira

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  • Fabiano Seixas Fernandes Universidade Federal do Ceará - UFC

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https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-7968.2015v35n2p189

Abstract

The present article comments on two Brazilian Portuguese translations of French poet Jacques Prévert’s poem “Mea Culpa”, by Silviano Santiago and Mário Laranjeira; it also comments on Laranjeira’s criticism of Santiago’s translation. Both the commentary on their translations and the commentary on Laranjeira’s criticism draw upon Antoine Berman’s concepts of translation position and translation project (1995). In light of these concepts, it is possible to see that, apart from the analytical soundness of Laranjeira’s comment on the poem, his criticism of Santiago’s translation does not take the latter’s translation project into account, and therefore disregards his translation emphases and commitments. Finally, a third translation is proposed, not as substitute to its forerunners, but as their continuator, and as one more link in a continuous chain of retranslations.

Author Biography

Fabiano Seixas Fernandes, Universidade Federal do Ceará - UFC

Possui graduação em Licenciatura em letras: inglês (1999) e Doutorado em Literatura (2004), ambos pela Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Atuou como Professor Substituto na mesma instituição (2008-9). Atualmente, é professor Adjunto, nível II, de Língua Inglesa e Literaturas pela Universidade Federal do Ceará, professor da Pós-Graduação em Estudos da Tradução (POET/UFC). Fortaleza, Ceará, Brasil. E-mail: fbnfnds@gmail.com

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2015-07-19

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Fernandes, F. S. (2015). Erring with Prévert: Commentary on brazilian portuguese translations Of “Mea Culpa” by Silviano Santiago and Mário Laranjeira. Cadernos De Tradução, 35(2), 189–210. https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-7968.2015v35n2p189

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Vol. 35 No. 2 (2015): Edição Regular

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