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Contexts, Subtexts and Pretexts: Literary translation in Eastern Europe and RussiaEdited by Brian James Baer
[Benjamins Translation Library 89] 2011
► pp. 205–218
Edited by Brian James Baer
[Benjamins Translation Library 89] 2011
► pp. 205–218
Squandered opportunities
On the uniformity of literary translations in postwar Hungary
This chapter opens with a brief historical overview of the reasons behind the striking uniformity of literary translations from Spanish into Hungarian (scarcity of translators, asymmetrical cultural relations, strong prewar translation canon), and then offers a detailed picture of the ideology, theory, and practice of translating literature under communism. A great number of examples and statistics, taken mainly from modern Latin American fiction, suggests why translations played a key role in promoting this fiction, why uniformity was inevitable, and finally, why planned art is always old fashioned.
Cited by (2)
Cited by two other publications
Sohár, Anikó
2022. ‘Anyone Who Isn’t Against Us Is for Us’: Science Fiction Translated from English During the Kádár Era in Hungary (1956–89). In Translation Under Communism, ► pp. 241 ff. 
Dybiec-Gajer, Joanna
2017. Looby, Robert. 2015. Censorship, Translation and English Language Fiction in People’s Poland. Target. International Journal of Translation Studies 29:2 ► pp. 344 ff.
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