Translator plagiarism and eclectic translations

Authors

  • Michael Studemund-Halévy Universidad de Hamburgo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14672/1.2023.2183

Keywords:

bulgaria, judezmo, Sephardic literature, paratext, preface, translators and translations, pseudotranslator, direct and indirect translation, retranslation, adaptation, “belles lettres“

Abstract

Literature lives on translation, is fed by  translation. Judezmo literature may be absent from world literature, but world literature is omnipresent in Judezmo literature. Judezmo literature is a literature of translation (adaptation, imitation, rewriting, plagiarism), that is, a literature of adaptation of European works in terms of inspiration, influence or models of imitation. Reliance on foreign-language sources became a characteristic of Sephardic fiction that tended to receive influences rather than exert them.

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Published

2023-07-28