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| Author(s): |
Thiago Mattos de Oliveira
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2015-06-22 |
| Examining board members: |
Álvaro Silveira Faleiros;
Adalberto Müller Junior;
Roberto Zular
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| Advisor: | Álvaro Silveira Faleiros |
| Abstract | |
Baudelaire dedicated himself to Mon coeur mis à nu from 1859 until 1865. With the horizons of Jean-Jacques Rousseaus Confessions and the always unconcluded Edgard Allan Poes project My heart laid bare (from where Mon coeur mis à nus title comes, by the way), Baudelaire is aware that the accomplishment of his own project will not be easy, and he expresses it, sometimes, by writing down the very sense of impossibility in many of his personal letters. Baudelaire dies in 1867, leaving his project unconcluded. What remains are notes, scraps, unattached paragraphs, sequences to be included in future texts, subject lists do be dealed with. Poulet-Malassis, Baudelaires friend and main editor, was in charge of giving order to and binding the manuscripts referring Mon coeur mis à nu. The first full edition, however, was treated by Eugène Crépet, that chooses to call the text, if so, Journaux intimes, interpreting (mistakenly) it as a literary project or, in a certain way, a literary text in progress of being written, like a journal. In Brazil, we are offered with four (re)translations: Meu coração desnudado (Nova Fronteira, 1981), by Aurélio Buarque de Holanda; Meu coração a nu (Nova Aguilar, 1995), by Fernando Guerreiro; Meu coração desnudado (Autêntica, 2009), by Tomaz Tadeu; and Diários íntimos (Caminho de Dentro, 2013), by Jonas Tenfen. The present work aims mainly to analyze these (re)translations. It is also intended to (a) discuss the notion of retranslation in translation studies, by means of authors such as Berman (1990), Gambier (1994; 2012), Ladmiral (2012) etc., and (b) to review the literary criticism on Mon coeur mis à nu, trying to question both the attitude of interpreting it as an intimate journal and the tendency to categorizing it definitely as a draft poetics (DIDIER, 1973), relatively impervious and stable. If retranslation is believed to be an ethical space (CARDOZO, 2007) of (tense) relations among ways of reading and saying the text, we seek to identify the translation attitudes at stake in each Brazilian (re)translation, that is, answering in which way they understand and reveal Mon coeur mis à nu at the Brazilian literary system. For this purpose, we employ not only (re)translations themselves, but also paratextual materials (RISTERUCCI-ROUDNICKY, 2008), places where translators present more explicitly their comprehension of the translation in progress, but also of the translational gesture itself. Identifying in Mon coeur mis à nu a highly moving textuality, based in unsolvable tensions (project and work; process and text), we do realize that Brazilian (re)translations mitigate, or even erase, these tensions, making translational and editorial choices that homogenize the text, suppress their variabilities and virtualities, and inscribe Mon coeur mis à nu in the memory of the intimate journals, of the purely confessional writings, whose value resides more in the personal aspect than in its tensions and contradictions, latencies and potentialities. As an unfolding of this analysis, we point out the need of a Brazilian (re)translation based exactly on the procedural and variable dimension of Mon coeur mis à nu, not in quest of restoring an allegedly chronological process, but as an attempt of building, through translation, a scriptural space (GALÍNDEZ-JORGE, 2009) in which the reader can be confronted precisely with this haunting and with this monstrosity (GALÍNDEZ-JORGE, 2010) that are (latently) in Mon coeur mis à nu basis itself. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 14/01489-6 - (Re)translations of Charles Baudelaire's Mon cSur mis à nu |
| Grantee: | Thiago Mattos de Oliveira |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |