Re-Visiting 'Dead Souls': Translation from Russian to Portuguese. Some Very Personal Comments

Abstract

ABSTRACT This short work presents some translator’s personal comments, strategies and advice regarding translating Nikolai Gogol’s masterpiece ‘Dead Souls’ into Portuguese! Gogol uses complex stylistic devices which, on many occasions make this work almost impossible to translate! Thus, this article presents some examples of and observations about elements that are sometimes considered untranslatable – allusions, changes in register and style (oral vs. formal speech), realia, syntactic organization and what strategies were used to translate such features into Portuguese …