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'A translator is but one player in the literary field who constantly has to make choices': A case study: Marriage/Ordeal (1963) by Gerard Walschap, translated by Alex Brotherton.
- Source :
- Dutch Crossing; Mar 2022, Vol. 46 Issue 1, p50-64, 15p
- Publication Year :
- 2022
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Abstract
- The Stichting tot Bevordering van de Vertaling van Nederlands Letterkundig Werk (The Foundation for the Promotion of the Translation of Dutch Literary Works) was a state-funded quasi-governmental organization established in 1954 to oversee the translation of Dutch literary works into a variety of languages until 1989. One of The Foundation's first key projects was the development of a series of Dutch imaginative works translated into English, eventually called the Bibliotheca Neerlandica, that would implicitly redress the imbalance in the international reception of Dutch literature and its fine-art counterpart in the Dutch Golden Age of painting. The translator, Alex Brotherton, was commissioned by The Foundation to translate three of the volumes and I selected one of these as my case study to consider whether his translation choices always met with success. On comparing his translation with the source text, I highlighted four key areas which were to challenge him and considered his decisions when dealing with proper names, foreign words within a text, titles and his fidelity to the source text. Brotherton was not the only player in the 1960s literary field and I considered others including publishing companies, the copy-editor and press reviews to ascertain the level of influence they had on the final published work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- COPY editors
DUTCH literature
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- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 03096564
- Volume :
- 46
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Dutch Crossing
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 155053492
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/03096564.2020.1812882