Dévoilement, a Literary Nontranslation of the Apocalypse

• Autor(a) principal: Stradioto-Casolato, Ana Magda
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Belas Infiéis
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/belasinfieis/article/view/44679
• topic: Jacques Brault. Nãotradução. Retradução literária das Escrituras. Bíblia dos escritores. Livro do Apocalipse.; Jacques Brault. Nontranslation. Literary retranslation of the Scriptures. The writers’ Bible. Book of the Apocalypse.

This paper aims to analyze certain mechanisms of the nontranslation – the québécois writer Jacques Brault’s translation poetics – applied to the translation of a sensitive text. The nontranslation sets a triple enunciative relation among the original, the translation and the final text. Thus, to John of Patmos’ voice joined in Brault’s one – by making use of distinctive procedures of such poetics – to dispel the esoterism that tradition granted to the book of the Apocalypse with its many retranslations. It concerns a rewriting which, by overlooking its biblical affiliation, ensured that the Apocalypse’s “testimonial nature” – provided by its author – determined Brault’s nontranslation choices. Regarded by Brault as a powerful poem of epic proportions, the nontranslation of the last tome of the Scriptures sets aside its religious ascendancy and focused on its poetic aspect. The result is Dévoilement [Revelation], a literary nontranslation of the book which is one of the most difficult and controversial of the Bible.