Classic Canadian Humour Unveiled: Stephen Leacock in (Pre)Communist Romania
Classic Canadian Humour Unveiled: Stephen Leacock in (Pre)Communist Romania

Summary/Abstract: This paper is an attempt to shade light on the Romanian reception, through translations and critical studies, of a beloved Canadian literary figure, the humourist Stephen Leacock. Introduced to Romanian readers mainly via short articles in periodicals during the inter-war and WWII years and hailed as Canada’s Mark Twain, the author received book-length treatment only in the communist period. Drawing on reader-response criticism and history of the book, we will account for the criteria that operated in the selection process of his works and the type of criticism practiced by Romanian rewriters, in the sense coined by the Translation Studies scholar André Lefevere.

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