The word as an exchange: The narrator in the short story "Uma galinha", by Clarice Lispector and in its French translation "Une Poule"

• Grant number: 24/14028-9
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: January 01, 2025
• End date: December 31, 2025
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Literature - Comparative Literature
• Principal Investigator: Alexandre Bebiano de Almeida
• Grantee: Gabriel Azevedo Alves
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 25/08058-5 - Clarice Lispector in France: an analysis of the decline of critical reception after 1989, BE.EP.IC

Abstract

This project intends to realize a comparative and interpretative analysis of the short story "Uma galinha", by Clarice Lispector, and its French translation "Une poule", by Jacques and Teresa Thiériot. We aim to interpret the original short story by analyzing the narrator's position and the procedures he uses to construct a tension between the family, as identity, and the animal, as otherness. Thus, bearing in mind the work of Antoine Berman (1995); Derrida (2002 [1987]); about translation as a new manifestation of the original, the comparison with the translated version will reveal the methods used by the translators to create the tension between identity and otherness, and will identify the changes in the narrator's position that the translation choices reflect in the text.