ПРОБЛЕМЫ СОВРЕМЕННОГО ПЕРЕВОДА ДРЕВНЕГРЕЧЕСКОЙ ТРАГЕДИИ: РАБОТЫ ЭНН КАРСОН
PROBLEMS OF MODERN TRANSLATION OF ANCIENT GREEK TRAGEDY: THE WORKS OF ANNE CARSON

Summary/Abstract: The object of research is the modern translations of ancient Greek tragedy. The aim is to explore the specifics of modern translations of ancient drama by a Canadian linguist and translator Anne Carson in the context of the English translation tradition (as the history of translating ancient texts in different European countries varies depending on their own literary traditions). Modern translations are more of an object of literary criticism and publicistic reflection rather than of scholarly research. However, being part of classical studies, on the one hand, and the modern literary process, on the other, they are also of special interest for researchers. While an “ideal” academic translation implies strict adherence to the principles of accuracy, equilinearity, and equimetry, a modern translation is a translation“ from culture to culture” refracting ancient material in accordance with modern aesthetics. The key aspects of Carson’s poetics are visualization (playing with the length of lines and “semantic” breakdown into lines that do not correspond to the original; illustrations and comments that become part of the text; metaphorical visual reinterpretation of images),genre transformations, and actualization. The main problem in modern references to ancient material is identifying the permissible degree of freedom and the search for boundaries between translation and one’s own interpretation.

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