<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>This paper explores the constraints language deconstruction and ungrammaticality in Margerite Duras’s novels impose on the translation process. Given its “value” in Duras’s work, ungrammaticality seems to dictate the translator’s choice of literal translation to English or Spanish, except when the differences between language systems do not allow for literal translation and require creative ways to capture the source text and its effects. However, a review of several published English and Spanish translations of Duras’s novels has revealed that a more powerful constraint is imposed on translation and conflicts with the above-mentioned mechanism. This fundamental constraint is the acceptability of the proposed translation by the target culture.</p></abstract>

This paper explores the constraints language deconstruction and ungrammaticality in Margerite Duras’s novels impose on the translation process. Given its “value” in Duras’s work, ungrammaticality seems to dictate the translator’s choice of literal translation to English or Spanish, except when the differences between language systems do not allow for literal translation and require creative ways to capture the source text and its effects. However, a review of several published English and Spanish translations of Duras’s novels has revealed that a more powerful constraint is imposed on translation and conflicts with the above-mentioned mechanism. This fundamental constraint is the acceptability of the proposed translation by the target culture.

Traduire l’« agrammaticalité » durassienne : liberté ou contrainte ?

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This paper explores the constraints language deconstruction and ungrammaticality in Margerite Duras’s novels impose on the translation process. Given its...

Traduire l’« agrammaticalité » durassienne : liberté ou contrainte ?

Published Online: Sep 23, 2017

Page range: 83 - 97

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/tran-2017-0005

Keywords
translation, ungrammaticality, foreignness in translation, Duras, constraint, style, reception, fidelity

© 2017 Elodie Weber, published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Traduire l’« agrammaticalité » durassienne : liberté ou contrainte ?

Published Online: Sep 23, 2017

Page range: 83 - 97

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/tran-2017-0005

Keywordstranslation, ungrammaticality, foreignness in translation, Duras, constraint, style, reception, fidelity

© 2017 Elodie Weber, published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
translation, ungrammaticality, foreignness in translation, Duras, constraint, style, reception, fidelity