Mamita Yunai: una traducción al húngaro

En este artÍCulo se analiza la traducción de un texto literario costarricense al húngaro como una instancia de metatexto que utiliza determinados rasgos de la percepción cultural e ideológica del público meta sobre lo latinoamericano, con el fin de lograr el acercamiento o identificación del lector con una cultura muy diferente a la suya. Se argumenta que este rediseño del texto sigue un patrón consecuente y, lejos de ser un irrespeto al autor, constituye la esencia misma de la traducción.In this brief study, the translation into Hungarian of a Costa Rican literary text is analyzed as a metatext that makes use of certain features of the target culture's view of Latin America (both in terms of culture and ideology) to bring the reader nearer to a very different reality. We argue that the translator's decisions fit into a systematic design which by no means should be considered unfaithfulness but rather the very essence of translation.

La firma de quien traduce (Reflexiones sobre aspectos sociales y cambio lingüístico en el ejercicio de la traducción)

La autora analiza algunas de las implicaciones sociales, pragmáticas y culturales que la labor del traductor conlleva. Se toman bajo consideración cambios histórico-lingúísticos, localización e internacionalización y los prejuicios sociales y su relación a la traducción en tanto práctica. La traducción se visualiza entonces como un acto de afirmación política, cultural, ideológica y ética.

Consideraciones metodológicas para la enseñanza de la traducción

    La autora analiza ciertas técnicas de enseñanza de traductores direccionadas a principiantes. Además de determinados aspectos teóricos, se consideran técnicas tales como ejercicios de pretraducción, análisis textual, análisis de textos paralelos, análisis de problemas semánticos, sintácticos y léxicos, y ejercicios del proceso de traducción, de revisión y de autoevaluación. 

Estudio histórico militar de Zumalacárregui y Cabrera / por Wisdom ; traducción del inglés.

En port.: 1. parte : Zumalacárregui

Los ejercicios de traducción como motivos de creación literaria

Con frecuencia, en los primeros ejercicios de traducción del griego y del latín al español, los alumnos son más propensos a errores sintácticos y, principalmente, de elección de significados. Arriesgan versiones que, comparadas con el sentido del texto original, ofrecen errores esperables, curiosas ocurrencias y, muchas veces, humor no buscado. Son erróneas, sin duda; pero leídas sin cotejar el original, esas traducciones parecen enigmas muy cercanos a los de un oráculo, tropos literarios u ocurrencias de quien ha perdido la razón. El objetivo del presente trabajo es analizar cómo algunos de esos errores de traducción fueron empleados como motivos de creación literaria en el cuento ?La loca Justina? de La tierra contada (1989) de Juan Bautista Zalazar y el valor que tienen al momento de interpretar la historia

Los ejercicios de traducción como motivos de creación literaria

Con frecuencia, en los primeros ejercicios de traducción del griego y del latín al español, los alumnos son más propensos a errores sintácticos y, principalmente, de elección de significados. Arriesgan versiones que, comparadas con el sentido del texto original, ofrecen errores esperables, curiosas ocurrencias y, muchas veces, humor no buscado. Son erróneas, sin duda; pero leídas sin cotejar el original, esas traducciones parecen enigmas muy cercanos a los de un oráculo, tropos literarios u ocurrencias de quien ha perdido la razón. El objetivo del presente trabajo es analizar cómo algunos de esos errores de traducción fueron empleados como motivos de creación literaria en el cuento ?La loca Justina? de La tierra contada (1989) de Juan Bautista Zalazar y el valor que tienen al momento de interpretar la historia

La sabiduría árabe antigua reflejada en los proverbios de Al-Maydani: traducción y análisis paremiológico de un corpus seleccionado

Little is known about Ancient Arabia before the arrival of Islam as it was an area with few inhabited settlements and it was mostly a passageway for traders. In those inhabited settlements we could find some settled Arabs, but the prevailing life style was that of the rest of the population, nomadic Bedouin Arabs who travelled from place to place looking for water and pasture for their cattle, which they lived off. The desert was their natural habitat, a hostile environment full of danger where life was not easy. Camel taming made it possible for them to live that nomadic lifestyle, and the Bedouins became inseparable from their camels and from their horses and cattle. In order to make a living they worked as hunters, transported caravans, and plundered too. In the pre-Islamic era, knowledge was transmitted by oral communication, so very little written information about that time and place remains. One thing that has been handed down are proverbs, which after the 8th Century started to be collected by several writers in various written works. Given the characteristics of those proverbs, which are conserved almost intact from their origins, we can learn much about the lifestyle in Ancient Arabia. What is to be investigated within this thesis is whether through Paremiology it is possible to learn more about this area at this historic moment that precedes the arrival of Islam, and the first years of this religion. To learn about history, we usually rely on historians and palaeontologists, but this work will demonstrate that through Paremiology it is possible to know other aspects of culture, their knowledge, the way of life, thinking, society, etc...

En torno a la imagen literaria de Alfonso V de Aragón: Fortún García de Ercilla y su traducción castellana del De dictis de Antonio Beccadelli. Edición y estudio

Alfonso V of Aragon (1396-1458), who won from his contemporaries the title “the Magnanimous”, became one of the most brilliant fifteenth century monarchs, not only because of being a shrewd politician and king of one of the main kingdoms in the Iberian Peninsula, but also due to his cultural activity. Thanks to him the Aragonese territories were extended throughout the Mediterranean up to Naples, where he established a magnificent court that turned into maybe the most remarkable centre of intellectual vitality and development of Humanism. His patronage attracted a considerable number of leading poets of the period, as well as the most important Italian humanists. The presence of so many writers and outstanding scholars, together with the academic environment that the monarch encouraged, promoted an enormous literary production in four languages: Latin, Spanish, Catalan and Italian. Additionally, the valuable library gathered by the king and the Academy founded in order to spread knowledge illustrate part of his intellectual concerns. This way, through his love to literature and generosity to men of letters, Alfonso the Magnanimous boosted the culture of that time. The principal protagonist in the cultural activities of the circle of erudites formed around the sovereign was Antonio Beccadelli, called Panormita (1394-1471). He, one of the most prominent personalities of Italian Humanism, assumed the role of main royal advisor. His work De dictis et factis Alphonsi regis (The sayings and deeds of king Alfonso), which will be studied in our dissertation, became a very popular text about Alfonso’s personality, as a kind of biography based on anecdotes of the Magnanimous’ life by way of exempla to be imitated. The success of these episodes lasted for a long time and they are appreciated even nowadays. The work was valued as specula principum and had great impact in sixteenth century, when De dictis was republished several times and translated from Latin into Spanish. One of these translations, the one by Fortún García de Ercilla, caught our interest since it is in a manuscript signed by Ercilla himself and this version is still unpublished...

Estudio, edición crítica y traducción del "Memoriale virtvtvm" de Alfonso de Cartagena

Alfonso de Cartagena (1385-1456), possibly the most representative figure of the courtly, political and cultural dimension built around Juan II, was the third son of the famous convert Pablo de Santa Maria, Burgos’ rabbi and, later on, bishop of that same town. He started his career as governor of Cartagena’s cathedral, afterwards he was named dean of Santiago and Segovia, canon of Burgos and, after his father’s death, bishop of Burgos. Alternatively, he played a vital role in Castile’s national and international politics, as an ambassador in Portugal’s court, at Basel’s council and before Poland’s and Germany’s kings. His work, written both in Latin and Romance, either as an historian, treatise writer, theologist or translator, is quite broad; his literary connections were strong either with Italian humanists or with those who were fond of the language arts from Spain. The first part of this Thesis seeks to provide a wide enough perspective of the author, for which we place the emphasis on the most distinctive aspects of his life. Therefore, we divided the introduction in three sections: a biographical overview, his work and, last, a study on the Memoriale uirtutum itself. Thus, regarding the first aspect, we focus on the course of his life (§1.1), where we can highlight his university education, which isn’t restricted to his training as a jurist, but we also observe that his mental vitality takes him to develop certain inquisitiveness for Moral Philosophy or Latin, which leads him to study Grammar and Rhetoric; this would allow the influence of studia humanitatis to emerge, although he never got to learn the Greek language, as we can deduce from the epistolary confrontation between him and Leonardo Bruni. We also focus on the significance of his Jewish past, upon the defence of the converts during the massacre experienced in the XVth century (§1.2), and on his presence at Basel’s council (§1.3). Despite the fact that his work as a diplomat begins during the missions in Portugal as an emissary of king Juan II, he will get recognition owing to his legation in Basel, not only among the European ecclesiastics, but also among the scholars from Italy; the importance of Basel’s council in Cartagena’s life goes beyond his official work there, either as defending the Castilian interests, or as an active member of the purely conciliar functions, since it also had a huge impact in his intellectual growth. During this time period, Cartagena establishes a friendship with Pizzolpaso, Bishop of Milan, writer, humanist, and friend of Leonardo Bruni. As a result of this type of relationship with men of such high cultural standard, he re-awakens the study of the Classical antiquity among his contemporaries, developing a huge interest in the Greco-Roman masterpieces, which will bring him closely to the highly-regarded Spanish humanists of the XVIth century...

Amo dunque sono, traducción al español. Sibilla Aleramo: renacer a traves de la escritura

La temática de la escritura al femminile de Sibilla Aleramo surge como objeto del presente trabajo tras asistir dentro del Curso de Doctorado “Texto y Contextos” a la asignatura “La escritura con pluma de mujer”. Durante el curso tuve la oportunidad de leer numerosos textos escritos por mujeres italianas en los primeros años del Novecento, lo que me hizo sentir el deseo de escribir sobre una de ellas: Sibilla Aleramo, su escritura y su existencia, empezando por su novela autobiográfica: Una donna. Ese texto fue el que más me llamó la atención por la historia que contaba: la de una mujer cuya vida había sido excepcional; la originalidad de su personaje con su singular biografía y la naturaleza de su producción literaria me empujaron a querer escribir sobre ella. Sibila Aleramo puede ser considerada como una feminista ante litteram; la pionera del feminismo italiano, en el sentido de que fue la primera escritora que en la Italia de aquel entonces, tuvo el valor de no conformarse con toda una serie de principios que regentaba el universo humano y social de las mujeres. Su feminismo, ni teórico ni de acción, es una actitud moral instintiva, un pensamiento personal aislado que nunca se alineó con movimientos organizados, fue ante todo la obediencia a un imperativo interior que no podía no seguir...

El segundo comentario de Abraham Ibn Ezra al libro del Cantar de los Cantares. Edición crítica, traducción, notas y estudio introductorio

We herewith present the critical edition, translation and notes from the second commentary of Abraham ibn Ezra on the Song of Songs. This work is preceded by an introductory study that considers among others, various aspects of the commentary and the influence that the previous and contemporary Jewish exegesis to Ibn Ezra’s may exert on his interpretations of the Song of Songs. Finally, we analyze some of the features that are part of the commentary of Ibn Ezra on the Canticles. Summary: Objectives and results It is the purpose of this work to go into detail about the study of the exegetical texts of Abraham ibn Ezra, and in particular the text of this second commentary of Ibn Ezra on Song of Songs, whose translation and critical edition is the subject of this work. This is especially interesting since it is one of the few translations from the original Hebrew, among which are the Latin translation of Gilberto Genebrardo, published in Paris in 1585 and the English edition of Richard A. Block, published in 1982 in Cincinnati. This edition of the second commentary of Ibn Ezra on the Song of Songs continues the lead of previous work carried out in the translation and critical edition of Ibn Ezra's comments to Ecclesiastes, Esther, and Job by Mariano Gómez Aranda and the commentary to Book of Ruth by Maria Josefa Azcárraga Servert. The translation of Abraham ibn Ezrás text on the aforementioned second commentary on the Song of Songs, and the drawing up of the critical edition by selecting manuscripts that, once collated, will lead to the Hebrew text that will be used for the Castilian version is the basis of the present work. Of the thirty-three existing manuscripts of Ibn Ezra's commentary on the Canticles, ten have been rejected in principle since they belong to the first commentary, whose text on two manuscripts was translated into English by H. J. Mathews in 1874. Only thirteen out of the remaining twenty three manuscripts have been used for drawing up the critical edition, since ten of them have not been included in the present edition in spite of their belonging to the second commentary...

LA TRADUCCIÓN DE LA LITERATURA INFANTIL Y JUVENIL Sciroppo de Giuseppe Viroli: propuesta de traducción

Lo scopo di questo progetto è quello di offrire una proposta di traduzione verso lo spagnolo dell’opera letteraria Sciroppo, appartenente al genere letterario della letteratura per bambini e ragazzi, così come una sua analisi. La suddetta opera, scritta dall’autore italiano Giuseppe Viroli, racconta le avventure di un pupazzo di gomma di nome Sciroppo, e un gatto d’appartamento chiamato Serse, che dopo essersi conosciuti per caso, vivono tantissime avventure insieme, interagendo con una gran quantità di animali e di persone. Questo progetto contiene quattro capitoli: il primo sarà dedicato all’analisi dell’opera in questione, concentrandosi sugli elementi paratestuali presenti nel libro, sul contenuto, i temi e la finalità dell’opera, lo stile letterario e il percorso dell’autore. Il capitolo successivo offre un quadro teorico della letteratura per bambini e ragazzi in generale, spiegando le caratteristiche di questa disciplina e contestualizzandola sul piano storico. Nel terzo capitolo si presenta la proposta si traduzione verso lo spagnolo mentre nel quarto capitolo trova spazio il commento alla traduzione in cui si illustreranno la metodologia impiegata, i problemi riscontrati durante il processo traduttivo e le strategie per risolverli.

As vivências: questões de tradução, sentidos e fontes epistemológicas no legado de Vigotski

O objetivo deste artigo é abordar a questão das vivências na perspectiva de L.S. Vigotski, tratando de suas fontes epistemológicas, de suas raízes na língua russa e de seus sentidos específicos, priorizando "A Tragédia do Hamlet, Príncipe da Dinamarca" (1916) e os textos pedológicos dos anos 1930, com destaque para "A questão do meio na pedologia". Destacam-se as transformações das ideias do autor sobre vivências e sua contribuição metodológica à  análise da relação indivíduo-meio no desenvolvimento humano, articulada aos conceitos de consciência e sistema.