Перевод и переводчики в литературной системе Сергея Довлатова

  1. Savchenkova, Margarita 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Salamanca
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    Universidad de Salamanca

    Salamanca, España

    ROR https://ror.org/02f40zc51

Journal:
Mundo eslavo

ISSN: 1579-8372

Year of publication: 2022

Issue: 21

Pages: 75-95

Type: Article

DOI: 10.30827/MESLAV.VI21.25419 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openOpen access editor

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Abstract

This article analyses the approach of Sergei Dovlatov, exiled Russian writer of the Third Wave in the United States, to the problem of translation and the figure of the translator. Using materials from Dovlatov’s novellas and short stories, as well as his articles, letters, essays and interviews, we can trace the writer’s contradictory attitude towards the translation activity and his ambivalent perception of the translation profession. While highly appreciating the American translation literature, the author repeatedly downplays the importance of translations from Russian into English, thus pointing out the superiority of Russian literary translation and language over English. He offers a number of reflections on the translation of his own creative heritage, the role of translation practices within the context of Soviet literature and the untranslatability of certain Russian words and Soviet phenomena. In the writer’s prose a clear distinction is drawn between women-translators, viewed as an object of male sexual desire, and male-translators, presented in the pages of Dovlatov’s books as comic characters. Meanwhile, the analysis shows that in the life and work of the novelist himself we can detect some traits that are typical of the translator’s profession. Our observations and conclusions about the place of translation and the figure of the translator in Dovlatov’s texts are supported by research in translation studies, as well as by the publications on Dovlatov’s writings.   

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