Editorial and discursive issues in the retranslation of Lewis Carroll’s story Alice’s adventures in wonderland into Portuguese

• Autor(a) principal: Souza, Micla Cardoso de
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Outros Autores: Hatje-Faggion, Válmi
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Moara (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufpa.br/index.php/moara/article/view/1572

The objective of this article is to show how a sametext can be translated in different ways, depending on the translation project of the publisher and the translator. With this purpose, three translations in Portuguese of Lewis Carroll’s story Alice’s adventuresin wonderland, which was retranslated and published in Brazil several times, were selected for a comparative reading. The translations chosen were: Alice no país das maravilhas published by L&PM Pocket (1998)and translated by Rosaura Eichenberg and Ísis Alves; Alice: edição comentada published by Jorge Zahar Editor (2002) and translated by Maria X. de A. Borges; and Alice no país das maravilhas published byEditora Ática (2006) and translated by Ana Maria Machado. Lambert and Van Gorp’s (1985) theoretical model for the description of literary translation is the point of departure of the comparative reading. However, since the translated story is characterized by cultural aspects of the English language, present in the narrative by means of intertextuality, mainly allusions, word puns and parodies, these topics are the focus of the comparative reading. The collected data indicate that, in spite of the similarities between the translations, the translated texts have their own differences and peculiarities when the expected reading public and people involved in the translation process are taken into account.