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• Title:
  Benito Pérez Galdós and his Austrian translators: a study of their correspondence
• Creator:
  Bosch Benítez, Amalia
• Description:
  Perez Galdos was a well-known Spanish writer who published between 1870 and 1915. He died in 1920. He was a candidate for the Nobel Prize for five long years, but the literary award went to another Spanish writer, Echegaray, in 1904.Galdos achieved literary recognition in Europe due to the representation of his drama Electra (1901). Some of the most famous theatres in Europe staged this work, while others could not do it because of strict censorship imposed in a given country as it happened in Austria. Perez Galdos’s novels have been translated into practically all languages of the world, including Japanese, Chinese, Polish, and Russian. In this paper we explore the correspondence between the author and some translators in Austria. This is a continuation of the first paper (Bosch Benitez 2020) about the correspondence with German translators.There are many academic studies about the reception of the translation in such countries as Germany (Ramirez Jaimez 1993, 1995); France (Lopez Jimenez 1990, 1993, 1995), and Great Britain (Bly 2009). Most of the research on Perez Galdos has concerned the literary reception, construction or critical aspects of his novels in these countries; however, no specific studies have been conducted on the letters themselves. This paper is an attempt to explore the valuable contents of the letters that can shed some light over other political, literary or social aspects, like the existence of the translations of Perez Galdos’s books in Austria that are not registered in the actual bibliography or the changes that censors in Austria imposed on Electra as a precondition of it being staged. Hopefully, our work can help researches find the translations published; hints of their existence can be found in the letters that we have analysed.;
  En un artículo de próxima publicación (Bosch, 2020) estudiamos la relación epistolar que el escritor, Benito Pérez Galdós, mantuvo en vida con personas que solicitaban el honor de traducir sus novelas y dramas al alemán. En aquella ocasión nos ceñimos a la correspondencia con traductores alemanes. En esta nueva aportación, continuamos escudriñando la dimensión universal del escritor canario a través de la correspondencia con sus traductores austriacos.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2020 Rocznik Przekładoznawczy
• Date:
  2020.12.19
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
• Language:
  Polish
• Source:
  Rocznik Przekładoznawczy; Nr 15 (2020); 91-115;
  Translation Journal; No. 15 (2020); 91-115;
  2392-1552;
  1896-4362
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu
• Relation: https://apcz.umk.pl/RP/article/view/RP.2020.005/27472
• Subject:
  Pérez Galdós;
  translators;
  Austria;
  correspondence;
  Galdós
• Identifier: https://apcz.umk.pl/RP/article/view/RP.2020.005
• Data provider:
  Akademicka Platforma Czasopism
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• Type:
  text