In:Contexts, Subtexts and Pretexts: Literary translation in Eastern Europe and Russia
Edited by Brian James Baer
[Benjamins Translation Library 89] 2011
► pp. 205–218
Squandered opportunities
On the uniformity of literary translations in postwar Hungary
Published online: 13 April 2011
https://doi.org/10.1075/btl.89.16sch
https://doi.org/10.1075/btl.89.16sch
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.
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