Reseña Oscar Wilde in Deutschland und Österreich – Untersuchungen zur Rezeption der Komödien und zur Theorie der Bühnenübersetzung. Tomo 20 de Theatron – Studien zur Geschichte und Theorie der dramatischen Künste

Abstract

In his book Oscar Wilde in Germany and Austria (subtitled) Investigations on the reception of comedies and on the theory of the translation of plays -, Rainer Kohlmayer has chosen an ideal setting to face deep translation problems: it would be difficult to find a theatrical context of greater wealth of multidimensional nuances of the figurative sense than comedy, or a community of speakers with greater virtuosity in handling fine irony than the English people, or a more complex, secret, mysterious, perhaps inaccessible and Verbal and non-verbal codes of communication more intricate than British.