O perspectivă inedită asupra traducerii

Abstract

Abstract: The main idea is that there are two types of translation: faithful, as close as possible to the requirements of the original, and free, interpretable, with an increased dose of subjectivity. The thesis is illustrated based on some translations in which this typology is foreshadowed. Translations from Chinese and Italian poetry were used. In the case of the first translations, many more English translations were used than those made in Romanian. Faithful translations are usually made by philologists translators, the second – by poets as translators. Some observations denote that some poets are inclined to innovate, to transform the original, and this transfiguration can lead to the creation of a new poetic language in the target language. For example, on the one hand, Ezra Pound even accompanied his translations with a specific remark "after Li Po" to ward off accusations of overly loose interpretation of the original text, on the other hand, translations help the American poet to invent imagery.