Vladimir Nabokov as an Author-Translator
Writing and Translating between Russian, English and French
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 27 June 2024
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781350243361
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages280 pages
- Size 232x154x20 mm
- Weight 420 g
- Language English 565
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Short description:
Casts light on the interconnection of writing and translating in Nabokov's trilingual art, focusing the multilingual and translingual dimension of Nabokov's work in English, Russian and French.
MoreLong description:
Exploring the deeply translational and transnational nature of the writings of Vladimir Nabokov, this book argues that all his work is unified by the permanent presence of three cultures and languages: Russian, English and French. In particular, Julie Loison-Charles focusses on Nabokov's dual nature as both an author and a translator, and the ways in which translation permeates his fictional writing from his very first Russian works to his last novels in English.
Although self-translation has received a lot of attention in Nabokov criticism, this book considers his work as an author-translator, drawing particular attention to his often underappreciated and underestimated, but no less crucial, third language; French. Looking at Nabokov's encounters with pseudotranslation, Julie Loison-Charles demonstrates the influence this had on his practice as both a translator and a writer, arguing that this experience was crucial to his ability to create bridges between the literary traditions of Europe, Russia and America. The book also triangulates his practice and theory of translation for Onegin with those of Chateaubriand and Venuti to illuminate Nabokov's transnational vision of literature and his ethics of translation before presenting a robust case for reconsidering his collaborative translations in French as mediated self-translations.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
PART I. Nabokov and Pseudotranslation
1. At the Crossroads of Translation and Literature
2. Intertextual Links between Pseudotranslations and Nabokov's Work
3. Translating Pseudotranslations
4. Nabokov's Pseudotranslations
5. Are Nabokov's Novels in English 'Pseudotranslations'?
PART II. Nabokov and the Author Behind the Translator
6. Vladimir Nabokov's Translation Theory for Eugene Onegin
7. Eugene Onegin, a Translation into Nabokovese?
8. Investigating Nabokov's Literalism, from Chateaubriand to Venuti
9. Nabokov's Eugene Onegin, or the Reshaping of the Russian Canon in the World Republic of Letters
PART III. Nabokov as a French Self-Translator
10. Collaborative Translation as Mediated Self-Translation
11. Nabokov and his Collaborators
12. Nabokov's Creative Involvement in French
13. Should Nabokov Be Retranslated?
Conclusion
References
Index
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