Translational Ethics and the Grammatization of At-Homeness. A Grammatical Analysis of the Bouazza’s “De verloren zoon” and the French Translation
Etica translaţională şi gramatizarea faptului „de-a-fi-acasă”. O analiză gramaticală a povestirii lui Bouazza „Fiul Risipitor” şi traducerea franceză

Summary/Abstract: The ethico-translational debates circulate incessantly around two notions: the Self and the Other. This comes as no surprise, given that the translator is often described as a mediator whose main responsibility consists in carrying a text, initially embedded in a foreign culture, not only into another language, but also into another cultural setting. Still, Selfhood and Otherness have remained abstract and fuzzy terms. For this reason we have elaborated a scheme, based on the writings of Bernard Stiegler and Martin Heidegger, that will allow us perform, what we call, a grammatical analysis of at-homeness. This analysis will provide us with sufficient grounds to determine the Selfhood of the Other – i.e. text-to-be-translated. This determination will come in handy when comparing the source text and the target text. In this specific case, we will compare the grammatically constituted notions of selfhood in the short story “De verloren zoon” (The Prodigal Son), written by the highly influential and critically acclaimed Moroccan-Dutch author Hafid Bouazza, and the French translation of Daniel Cunin, entitled “Le fils prodigue”.

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