Paulo Leminski, translator of Petronius: Satyricon, Study and Review

• Grant number: 16/01548-8
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Start date: June 01, 2016
• End date: July 31, 2020
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Literature - Classical Languages
• Principal Investigator: Paulo Sérgio de Vasconcellos
• Grantee: Livia Mendes Pereira
• Host Institution: Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem (IEL). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 18/06637-4 - Petronius's Satyricon and its reception in the Portuguese language literature, BE.EP.DR

Abstract

Seeking to contribute to the research on translations of Greco-Roman classical works and to their reception in our literature, this project proposes to study and disclose the translation of Satyricon, by Petronius, prosecuted by the poet Paulo Leminski. It can be verified by reading his biography, as well as it can be perceived among his works' themes, that the author was a connoisseur and disseminator of Latin language and literature. This ancient language was initially studied by Leminski at São Bento monastery, in the city of São Paulo, when he was thirteen years old, and it was an important creative source revisited and rethought throughout his literary career. In addition to translations performed directly from Latin, as Ode I, 11, by Horace (1984), and Satyricon, by Petronius (1987), the contact with Latin literary texts can be found in works like Metaformose and Catatau, which we analyzed during the Scientific Initiation. This work is based upon the confrontation between the Latin text and Leminski's translation, and it strives to provide a study of the Petronian novel reception in the contemporary Brazilian literature, which finds in Leminski one of its exponents. Hence, by allying knowledge in Latin language to Translation History, our proposal seeks to reveal the importance of literature of antiquity in Portuguese literature, with an example of his reception.

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

PEREIRA, Livia Mendes. Paulo Leminski, translator of Petronius: Satyricon, study and review. 2020. Doctoral Thesis - Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem Campinas, SP.