Le traduzioni polacche delle novelle di Grazia Deledda (1906–1939)

The paper is devoted to the editorial and translation history of Grazia Deledda’s short stories in Poland before the Second World War, a topic barely touched upon in scholarship so far. I establish which original collections were most successful and examine the circumstances of the publication of the translations, taking into consideration the translators and the profiles of the journals that published the eleven translated short stories. My study of the translations themselves focuses on the translators’ approach to Italian and Sardinian nature and culture and identifies elements that were eliminated, reproduced without explanation, or explained by means of notes. My findings are that only one translation is equipped with footnotes, that the local colour is largely rendered in translation, and that major losses in translation include some elements of descriptions of landscapes and characters

Art · Novella · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Italian Literature and Culture · Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition