Abstract
This essay deals with the issue of guilt, repentance and rebirth in the short novel Seme- jnoe sčast’e (Family Happiness) by Lev N. Tolstoy (1859). The author first considers the concepts of ‘offense’ , ‘repentance’ and ‘forgiveness’ through an analysis of the Russian terminology used by Tolstoy for these semantic fields (obida, dosada, vina, raskajanie, pokajanie); next, in an analysis of Clemente Rebora’s Italian translation (1920), special attention is paid to the differences from the original text that signal the translator’s interpretive reading, which, at the same time, becomes a tool for understanding it. It is shown how, in the transition from Russian into Italian, semantic shifts and phonetic symbolism add a mystical tension to the original Tolstoyan text which is typical of the poetry of Clemente Rebora.
Titolo tradotto del contributo | [Autom. eng. transl.] Translating to understand: guilt, repentance and rebirth in Lev Tolstoj's Semejnoe sčast'e and Clemente Rebora's Italian translation |
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Lingua originale | Italian |
pagine (da-a) | 31-48 |
Numero di pagine | 18 |
Rivista | LINGUAE & |
Volume | 2013 |
DOI | |
Stato di pubblicazione | Pubblicato - 2013 |
Keywords
- C. Rebora
- L.N. Tolstoj
- Traduzione
- Translation