%0 Journal Article
%T Gregory Rabassa¡¯s Views on Translation
%A Bola£¿os Cu¨¦llar Sergio
%J Forma y Funci¨®n
%D 2011
%I Universidad Nacional de Colombia
%X Gregory Rabassa is noted for his translations of famous Latin American authors (Garc¨ªa M¨¢rquez, Vargas Llosa, Clarice Lispector, Jorge Amado, etc.). Less known are his views on translating. In this paper I aim at presenting and discussing his viewpoints as to the definition of translation (with a key discussion of the concept of equivalence), the role of the translator (a model speaker-listener of the target text), and some of the translation strategies he applies in his translational work (original's pre-eminence, problem solving, foreignizing, fictionalizing, and semantic networking). I argue that most of Rabassa's stances towards translating can be explained and are still valid within the framework of a modern translation approach. Examples from the English, French, German, Portuguese and Russian translations of Garc¨ªa M¨¢rquez's Cien a os de soledad are taken from a multilingual parallel corpus collected by the author of this paper.
%K Gregory Rabassa
%K translation equivalence
%K translational problem solving
%K fictionalizing
%K semantic networking
%U http://www.revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/formayfuncion/article/view/29255