Translating Neruda
Release on 1980 | by John Felstiner

Certainly Neruda knew that a loss could occur in going either way between two languages . This state of affairs did not stimulate him to be inventive as a translator , and it also left him doubtful that his own poetry might survive ...

Translating Neruda
  • Author: John Felstiner
  • Publisher: Stanford University Press
  • ISBN: 0804713278
  • Category: Literary Criticism
  • Page: 284
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What goes into the translating of a poem? Usually that process gets forgotten once the new poem stands intact in translation. Yet a verse translation derives from historical, biographical, and philosophical research, interpretive analysis of the original poem, and continuous linguistic and prosodic choices that parallel those the poet made. Taking as a text Pablo Neruda's brilliant prophetic sequence Alturas de Macchu Picchu (1945), the author here re-creates the entire process of translation, from his first encounter with the poem to the last shaping of a phrase that may never come right in English. This many-faceted book forms an essay on the theory and practice of literary translation, a study of Neruda's career through 1945, and an interpretation of his major poem, all of which lead to a striking new poem in English, Heights of Macchu Picchu, printed along with the original Spanish. This genesis of a verse translation also includes little-known biographical data, hitherto untranslated poems and prose from the years 1920 to 1945, and new translations of key poems from Neruda's Residence on Earth and Spain in My Heart.

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