Elysio de Carvalho: Oscar Wilde’s Translator and Decadentist Author overlooked by Critics?

• Autor(a) principal: Ruffini, Mirian
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Xavier, Rodrigo Alexandre de Carvalho
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Cadernos de Tradução (Florianópolis. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/traducao/article/view/73203

The present study attempts to present the writer Elysio deCarvalho within the context of his activities as a translator and writer atthe turn of the 19th to the 20th centuries, by mainly taking into accounthis contribution in the dissemination of Oscar Wilde’s literature in Braziland the aesthetic legacy of his writing and translation. These facets arelittle studied when confronted with Carvalho’s decisive character both asan editor and as an intellectual of Letters. These facets converge to hispolitical activity and his involvement with anarchic tenets and, his futureconservative ideology. Literary theoreticians’ and critics’ works, amongwhom Edmundo Bouças Coutinho (2006), Peter Raby (2010), amongothers, are used as a basis for literary discussion regarding these themes.After that, a translation, by Elysio de Carvalho, of Oscar Wilde’s poemThe ballad of Reading Gaol, by Carvalho entitled A ballada do enforcado,was translated in 1899, in this way introducing Oscar Wilde’s literaturewithin the Brazilian literary system and the theater play entitled Umatragedia Florentina, written in 1924. In this study, we seek to uncovermarks of his translation project by means of an analysis of his translationalchoices and Carvalho’s aesthetic, stylistic and cultural transposition ofWilde’s works. For this purpose, the theoretical texts by Susan Bassnett(2005), Andre Lefevere (2007) are utilized, as well as the foundationsof Itamar Even-Zohar’s Polysystems Theory (1990), theoretician whofounded the Cultural Studies in Translation. The relevance of Carvalho’stranslation is verified by means of the transference of Oscar Wilde’sliterary and aesthetic marks, through the images, metaphorical andsemantic constructions present in both the poem and the theater play.