Traduire Saint­-John Perse en roumain : une réécriture passionnée et passionnante
Translating Saint-John Perse into Romanian: a Passionate and Exciting Rewriting

Summary/Abstract: Unanimously recognized as one of the forms of rewriting an original text, translation raises many problems related not only to differences in linguistic systems, but also of a cultural nature. And even if two languages are quite close, like Romanian and French, rewriting requires the translator to have an excellent command of the two languages, an affinity with the writer he translates and a strategy appropriate to the type of text. The translation of poetry is even more complicated, because prosodic constraints are added to it. For Aurel Rău the venture of translating St.J.Perse into Romanian has proved to be a passionate and exciting task at the same time, because it has lasted almost 40 years and since no other attempt to translate these prose poems has been registered in Romania. The translator’s fidelity to the spirit and to the letter of the original and the remarkable quality of his rewriting ensured him a long lasting success beyond time and space.

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