Geneze překladu čtyř Shakespearových sonetů // A translation genesis of four of Shakespeare’s sonnets
Drawing on its author’s Czech translation of nearly seventy poems from Shakespeare’s sonnet cycle, which lies at the very crux of the European literary canon, this paper shares a few insights into the workshop of a classical poetry translator. It explores the phonetic, structural, semantic and ima...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | ces |
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Univerzita Karlova, Filozofická Fakulta
2017-05-01
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| Series: | Svět Literatury |
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| Online Access: | https://sites.ff.cuni.cz/svetliteratury/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2017/05/Stanislav-Rubas_164-185.pdf |
| Summary: | Drawing on its author’s Czech translation of nearly seventy poems from Shakespeare’s sonnet cycle,
which lies at the very crux of the European literary canon, this paper shares a few insights into the
workshop of a classical poetry translator. It explores the phonetic, structural, semantic and imaginative
complexities of the most frequently translated sonnet sequence, and shows, step by step, the
way a translator has to deal with the various features of Shakespeare’s poems if one’s translation is
not to lose its poetry. Thus, the translator’s decision making process is discussed here, showing multiple
examples of how the Czech rendering of Shakespeare’s individual lines have evolved to form
a quatrain, a couplet, or, as in the case of sonnet 64, the complete poem. In a broader sense, the paper
argues against the popular remark by Robert Frost that “poetry is what gets lost in translation”.
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| ISSN: | 0862-8440 2336-6729 |