Samuel Beckett and Translation

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2021

Samuel Beckett and Translation

Edited by: José Francisco Fernández and Mar Garre García

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474483841

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Provides valuable insight into one of the most exciting developments in Beckett Studies in recent years

Includes especially commissioned contributions by three translators who worked with Samuel Beckett
Revisits traditional analyses of Beckett’s work which did not account for Beckett’s bilingualism. In all contributions, both versions of a Beckett text are considered originals, each one having its own dynamic impuls
Contains ample knowledge of previous scholarship in the field: it continues the path (bold, systematic, comprehensive) initiated by ground-breaking monograph A Tongue Not Mine (2011), by Sinéad Mooney
Reveals unknown aspects of Beckett’s practice of translation, e.g., not in all cases did he impoverish his texts when he rendered them in a second language
Displays full coverage of literary genres: attention is paid to prose fiction, theatre (including radio plays) and poetry translated by Beckett

Samuel Beckett and Translation explores the idea that at the core of Beckett’s work there is no fixed centre but a constant movement between variants of French and English. This collection of newly commissioned edited essays opens up original lines of enquiry into this restless impulse and how it finds a resonance in Beckett’s writing. Topics, including Beckett’s self-translations, translations of other authors and poetics of translation, are discussed in an Introduction and thirteen chapters followed by a section of commentary from seasoned translators who have worked on Beckett’s texts. In examining the full range of Beckett’s literary genres, this book presents how the high voltage released by Beckett’s bilingualism informs the intricacies of his literary production.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Notes on Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Introduction José Francisco Fernández and Mar Garre García Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I Beckett’s Self-Translations
1 ‘. . . bouche en feu . . .’: A Genetic Manuscript Study of Samuel Beckett’s Self-Translation of Not I Shane O’Neill Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
2 Tracing Translation: The Genesis of Comédie and Film (fr) Olga Beloborodova Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
3 The Self-Translation of the Representation of the Mind in Samuel Beckett’s Trilogy Waqas Mirza Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
4 Vagaries of Bilingualism. A Curious Case of Beckett’s Translations of his Own Poems Sławomir Studniarz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
5 Literal Translation vs. Self-Translation: The Beckett–Pinget Collaboration on the Radio Play Cendres (Embers) Pim Verhulst Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
Part II Beckett’s Translations of Other Authors
6 Esperando a Goethe: Translation, Humanism and ‘Message from Earth’ Patrick Bixby Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
7 ‘A stone of sun’: José Juan Tablada’s Poems in Samuel Beckett’s Translation María José Carrera Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
8 Translation’s Challenge to Lyric’s Immediacy: Beckett’s Rimbaud Amanda Dennis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
9 Are Beckett’s Texts Bilingual? ‘Long after Chamfort’ and Translation Matthijs Engelberts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
Part III Beckett’s Poetics of Translation
10 Au plaisir: Beckett and the Neatness of Identifications John Pilling Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
11 A Poetics of the Doppelgänger: Beckett as Self-Translator Dirk Van Hulle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
12 Tuning Absent Pianos: Watt and the Poetics of Translation Fábio de Souza Andrade Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
13 ‘The absolute impossibility of all purchase’: Property and Translation in Beckett’s Postwar Prose Martin Schauss Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
Part IV Commentary
Some Remarks on a Sentence in A Piece of Monologue Antoni Libera Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
The Third Language of Translation Gabriele Frasca Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	245
From All that Fall to Stirrings Still Erika Tophoven Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
Beckett Translating Alan W. Friedman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	256

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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 280
Illustrations
- Other: 3 B/W illustrations
Keywords: Literary Studies

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Published: April 5, 2022
ISBN: 9781474483841