Writing from the interstices: translation into embedded Spanish in For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
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https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.mut.17213Keywords:
Translation, Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls, code-switching, embedded discourse, censorship and translationAbstract
The following analysis of two translations into Spanish of Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls examines the narrative function of the Spanish syntax and lexicon embedded in the original's English and suggests possible strategies for a future translation of the work. The use of the rhetoric of censorship, the insertion of words and phrases in Spanish, and the syntactic displacements characteristic of a mixed dialect present a challenge the work's translators with a challenge. The insistence seen here on preserving the narrative mechanisms of the original work-an extension of the idea that translation and exegesis are mutually illuminating acts-leads us to the following question: What happens when the target language is already an integral part of the original?
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