Translators’ diaries as seminal Romanian texts on translation: A study of Antoaneta Ralian’s and Irina Mavrodin’s works
Translators’ diaries as seminal Romanian texts on translation: A study of Antoaneta Ralian’s and Irina Mavrodin’s works

Summary/Abstract: In the larger context of the Romanian discourse on translation supported by texts of theorists and practitioners, this paper focuses on the memoirs of two great translators, namely Antoaneta Ralian from English (Amintirile unei nonagenare: Călătoriile mele, scriitorii mei [Memories of a nonagenarian: My travels, my writers], 2014) and Irina Mavrodin from French (Despre traducere: Literal și în toate sensurile [On translation: literally and in all senses], 2006). Our aim is to show how their insights are valuable to anyone interested in (literary) translation as the two figures have massively contributed to the field ever since the communist period. Thus, we will begin by grasping at the genre and methodologies, and then proceed to Ralian’s and Mavrodin’s works, properly contextualizing them with the help of (academic) criticism, as well as interviews and articles in the cultural media. Our aim is to distinguish various and varied stances which afford several approaches to translation, in general and the literary genres in their reception process, in particular.

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