Publications

Publication details [#2353]

Gambier, Yves. 1994. La retraduction, retour et détour [Retranslation, returns and detour]. Meta 39 (3) : 413–417.

Publication type

Article in jnl/bk

Publication language

French

Keywords

adaptation | retranslation=re-translation | translatability=untranslatability

Person as a subject

Dostoevski, Fyodor | Freud, Sigmund | Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich | Kafka, Franz | Kundera, Milan

Abstract

Dostoevski, Kafka, Lowry, Kundera, Freud, Hegel and others have been retranslated or are being retranslated. Were the older versions wrong? Why are they being revised? Has our knowledge of Russian, German, English etc. changed? In this article, the author gives some answers to these questions.

Source : K. Foelen