'Tante cose venivano pubblicate ma hanno dovuto aspettare un altro momento’: la literatura latinoamericana y sus re-traducciones

[Autom. eng. transl.] Since 2000, Latin American literature has found a new channel of diffusion within the world of Italian publishing. In particular, the dissemination promoted by some independent publishers has given new breath to top works of Latin American literature whose translations had been lost in the editorial recesses and had disappeared from the shelves for decades. In some cases the return to the market of these texts, previously translated in the 1960s and '70s, has been accompanied by a new version of them, which has implied a new vision of the text within the literary and editorial dynamics of the contemporary cultural field; in others, on the other hand, the publishers have decided to only update the translations, which in this way have maintained the characteristics of their first version. In this study we propose to analyze the case of two texts whose editorial history has followed this path: Paraíso, by José Lezama Lima (2016, Edizioni Sur) and Farabeuf, by Salvador Elizondo (LiberAria 2018). Our objective will be to study the changes that have taken place between the first release on the market of both novels and their new version, highlighting what the modifications have been in the point of view with which the critics have received them, but also what the keywords have been used by publishers to disseminate and present these works to the public. From these specific cases, the objective is to reflect on the different reception molds that according to the time were built around these two works and, in general, around Latin American literature in general.