¿“Traducción cultural” versus “traducción poética”? Una categorización problemática al traducir poesía. El caso de la "Ophélie" de Artur Rimbaud en alemán

Abstract

Translating poetry represents the most arduous duty for the literary translator. Despite of its artistic nature translating verses can be object of the scientific investigation and contribute to the development of the translation studies. The following paper aims to examine the dynamics and the tensions being generated between the source text and the cultural norms of the target text, which act on the translator and considerably influence the filter. The comparison of translations becomes a fruitful method of inquiry, as it permits to shine a light on the development of translating theory in a diachronic perspective, which contributes to the study of the comparative cultural history, as well. This is the goal of the following comparison between two German translations of Rimbaud's Ophélie.