TRANS-RE-CRIANDO AUGUSTO DOS ANJOS EM LÍNGUA ALEMÃ: Trilhas sonoras de uma tradução de “Os Doentes”

Abstract

Within the Literary Translation Studies premises, my aim with this research was to translate from Portuguese to German, the poem “Os Doentes”, by the paraibano poet Augusto dos Anjos (1884-1914) published in his only book entitled EU (1912). The German culture knowledge was certainly of crucial relevance, which served Augusto dos Anjos as an artistic and humanistic basis for the man and poet he became -, if it is somehow possible to make this distinction between the man and poet, whenever we mention Augusto dos Anjos. The fundamental support to this study is the poetry published in the edition Augusto dos Anjos: Obra completa, in the way they were organized, fixed and noted by Alexei Bueno (Nova Aguilar, 1994). Together with the translation activity itself, I bring to light the efforts, the marks, the itinerary of the choices made using theoretical and practical methods of critical analysis, as for instance, “transcreation”, a procedure developed by the Campos Brothers. Besides this, as a source of inspiration, I strived for surrounding myself with influences, contributions, postures or atitudes towards the literary translation work taken by very experient poet-translators as well as less experienced ones in the several foreign languages I was able to access, in order to find and help me to build up my own translation process, my “I-translator”. The wish to discuss the general belief that poetry is art of no translation was the main aim of this research, in which I myself stand for the role of a poetry translator.