Introduction: Pessoa’s Bodies

Klobucka, Anna; Sabine, Mark

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“…Whilst the multilingualism of the fictitious authors is important in shaping how we conceive of Pessoa as a self-translating writer, the concept of heteronomy and fictional authorship itself speaks to the importance of Pessoa as a translational writer. Through the popular conception of Pessoa as 'an eccentric and exotic port of many selves', 21 we can perhaps think of Pessoa translating himself through each of the different writing voices. Pessoa then is an innately translative writer.…”

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Translating Pessoa: agency, creativity, refraction

Wren-Owens

2020

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This article analyses the ways in which translations of the Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa into Italian enable us to rethink notions of the agency and creativity of the translator. It suggests that Pessoa is a writer in and of translation, a refracted writer who embodies the potential of translation to become a creative act. It focuses on the ways in which Pessoa is multiply refracted by the translator and writer Antonio Tabucchi through translation, scholarly essays and fictional reconstructions, suggesting that the way in which Tabucchi brings these multiple refractions into dialogue is especially important in highlighting the agency of the translator to (re)construct the reader's notion of author and text. It thus highlights the agency of the translator and their ability produce an image of the source text and author in a creative process which is in dialogue with other texts and agendas. This article argues that the fragmentary, multilingual and polyphonic nature of Pessoa's work renders Pessoa a writer who is especially open to being creatively re-written and reconstructed through translation.

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Section: Pessoa As a Translational Writermentioning

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Translating Pessoa: agency, creativity, refraction

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Introduction: Pessoa’s Bodies

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