Translation and Self-Explanation in Ramon Saizarbitoria’s "Martutene"
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https://doi.org/10.37536/preh.2016.4.2.889Keywords:
Basque Literature, Translation, Ramon Saizarbitoria, Martutene, DiglossiaAbstract
TLiterary translation has been seen by some theorists as a means of understanding intercultural relations. Within such an approach, the translation of literature in Basque to Castilian Spanish must be understood according to its particularity as the translation of a language with minority status even within its own territory into a dominant one, both of them socio-politically charged. This essay analyzes how Ramon Saizarbitoria’s novel Martutene, in its Spanish translation (2103), explores Basque inter and intracultural relations by maintaining the tension of Basque and Castilian within the text, by positing narration as a form of producing and questioning identity, and by incorporating within its diegesis a translation project that proves to be unsatisfactory.
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