VERSIUNE ȘI RETROVERSIUNE ÎN OPERA ELENEI VĂCĂRESCU
CULTURAL TRANSLATION AND RE-TRANSLATION IN THE WORK OF ELENA VĂCĂRESCU
Author(s): Petre Gheorghe BârleaSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts, Translation Studies
Published by: Editura Universităţii Vasile Goldiş
Keywords: poetry; journalism; cultural-diplomatic activity; translations; cultural identity;
Summary/Abstract: The literary oeuvre of Elena Văcărescu, the descendent of the illustrious family of scholars and founders of modern Romanian language and literature, represents an odd association of linguistic mentalities and codes. The present study attempts to define the cultural identity and belonging of this poetess, who found her inspiration in the archaic and popular language of the Romanian mindscape and patterns of thought and feeling, but wrote in modern French. Her texts were then reconverted to Romanianby various translators, in versions which sound better than the French “original” and so on. The author clearly inhabited two fatherlands: a natural and an adoptive one, one of feeling and one of writing.
Journal: Studii de Ştiinţă şi Cultură
- Issue Year: XI/2015
- Issue No: 01
- Page Range: 219-231
- Page Count: 13
- Language: Romanian, Romance (Other)