Translating the Memory of the Holocaust: Thomas Geve’s Memoir

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Laura Miñano Mañero
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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.
翻译大屠杀的记忆:托马斯·格夫的回忆录
本文探讨了翻译大屠杀记忆的最重大挑战,重点是将幸存者的证词帐户转移到不同的语言和文化系统中的困难。因为集中营的经历本质上是多元文化的,幸存者选择用几种语言来记录他们的苦难,翻译是一门与构建普遍集体记忆直接交织在一起的学科的缩影。因此,翻译大屠杀回忆录对解释学和义务论提出了具有挑战性的问题。在接下来的几页中,我将批判性地分析我自己对托马斯·格夫回忆录的西班牙语翻译,《枪炮与铁丝网:一个孩子在大屠杀中幸存》(1987),以便深入研究译者所承担的伦理责任,以及集中文学翻译固有的形式和风格复杂性。
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Estudios de Traduccion LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS-
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