HAR ȘI INSPIRAȚIE ÎN TRADUCEREA ȘI RETRADUCEREA LITERARĂ. Actele Simpozionului Internațional despre Traducere și Retraducere Literară (București, 25–26 octombrie 2024)

This book presents a selection of papers delivered at the 3rd International Symposium on Literary Translation and Retranslation, held between October 24 and 26, 2024, and organized by the Bucharest Branch – Literary Translations (FITRALIT) of the Writers’ Union of Romania, in collaboration with the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Bucharest. Right from the foreword signed by Peter Sragher, President of FITRALIT, the volume sets out to be a well-argued meditation on the necessity of (re)translating works created either centuries ago or in contemporary times in order to bring them closer to today’s reader, as well as on carrying out this endeavor with utmost rigor, a critical attitude, and the tools of translation studies, so as not to diminish their beauty and profound meanings. The authors—themselves professors and translators (Ioana Costa, Liviu Franga, Florentina Nicolae, Margareta Sfirschi-Lăudat, Anca Milu-Vaidesegan, Constantin Dănuț Baicu, Constantin Manea, Ioana Feodorov, Yulia Petrova, Adela Chiru)—highlight both the challenges and the solutions involved in translating novels, poems, travelogues, and philosophical essays from and into Latin, Ancient Greek, English, Portuguese, Russian, Romanian, Persian, and Arabic. Given the variety of source texts (written by the Palatine poets, Nicolaus Olahus, William Shakespeare, Paul of Aleppo, Dimitrie Cantemir, Jane Austen, Constantine P. Cavafy, Clarice Lispector, and Zahra Taheri) and the target-language renderings analyzed, this collection of studies is aimed at historians, translators, and philologists in general, from those just starting out to those who have already gained extensive research experience.