Translating the Memory of the HolocaustThomas Geve’s Memoir
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Universitat de València
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ISSN: 2174-047X, 2254-1756
Año de publicación: 2020
Título del ejemplar: Monografía: Los enfoques emergentes en jurilingüística: textos, métodos y desarrollo profesional en traducción jurídica
Número: 10
Páginas: 247-263
Tipo: Artículo
Otras publicaciones en: Estudios de traducción
Resumen
This paper explores the most significant challenges of translating the memory of the Holocaust, focusing on the difficulties of transferring a survivor’s testimonial account to a different linguistic and cultural system. Because the concentration camp experience is inherently multicultural, and survivors have chosen to pen their ordeal in several languages, translation epitomizes a discipline that intertwines directly with the construction of universal collective memory. Consequently, translating Holocaust memoirs poses challenging questions on hermeneutics and deontology. Throughout the following pages, I will critically analyze my own Spanish rendition of Thomas Geve’s memoir, Guns and Barbed Wire: A Child Survives the Holocaust (1987), so as to delve into the ethical commitments borne by a translator, and into the formal and stylistic complexities inherent to the translation of concentrationary literature.
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