The Translator
From Piety to Cannibalism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4387422 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Serge Gavronsky (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1977 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 16 |
| Pages | 53 |
| Publication date | 1977-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | SubStance (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0049-2426 • E-ISSN: 1527-2095 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3684124 |
| OpenAlex | W2332529635 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
The following observations describe the relationship between the translator and the double text: the foreign one and its subsequent transcription into the translator's mother tongue. I will suggest two arguments that may contribute to a theory of the translator based on an analysis of the above mentioned relationship. There is, in the first place, the traditional definition of the translator as the passive re-coder, the one who considers himself inferior to the writer, who holds to a metaphysical interpretation of the term original, and therefore ascribes to the text a semi-sacred status, who sees himself as its protector, worshipping it from a distance introduced by his own willful diminution vis-a-vis the mother text. In this operation, the translator represses his d6lire de toucher, observes the original as if it were a primal authority protected by civilization's most universal prohibition-the one against incest. The second argument considers the translator as the one who, consciously or unconsciously, rejects this metaphoric prohibition, overcomes the taboo placed on it, and in a Nietzschean disregard for Christian-cultural traditions, becomes aggressively self-affirmative as he transforms the passive introduction-translation into an act of creation
Argument (complex analysis) · Art · Civilization · Epistemology · Interpretation (philosophy) · Linguistics · Literature · Metaphysics · Political science · Reflexive pronoun · Taboo · Law · Philosophy · Translation Studies and Practices
| Citations per year | 0.13 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2010 - 2011 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |