Translating the Plural Text: Samuel Beckett in Persian

Main author: Tahmasebian Dehkordi, Kayvan
Format: Journal Article           
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description The process by which a literary text comes to be is among the understudied domains of translation studies. This article draws on my experience of translating Samuel Beckett’s late prose works into Persian to explore how a convergence of translation studies and genetic criticism can affect and broaden the literary translator’s choices. I outline a new way for literary translation to approach unstable source texts which consist of a set of drafts. I demonstrate how my translation of Beckett's late prose works into Persian consists of translating the differential space between the English and the French versions of Beckett’s work, on the one hand, and between the variants of each version according to the variorum editions of his works, on the other.
format Journal Article
author Tahmasebian Dehkordi, Kayvan
author_facet Tahmasebian Dehkordi, Kayvan
authorStr Tahmasebian Dehkordi, Kayvan
author_letter Tahmasebian Dehkordi, Kayvan
title Translating the Plural Text: Samuel Beckett in Persian
publisher Taylor and Francis
publishDate 2023
url https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/41005/