Raymond Chandler published his first novel, The Big Sleep, in 1939. There are two Spanish translations of the novel, both titled El sueño eterno, one published in 1958 by Aguilar (Madrid) and the other in 1972 by Barral (Barcelona). This study analyzes irony in the two Spanish translations and concludes that both translations fail to reflect the degree of irony present in Chandler’s original, especially with respect to the translation of two key words, cute and giggle, and the dramatic effect of the novel’s climax is dampened as a consequence. Also, it is demonstrated that the 1972 version is, if not an outright plagiarism of the earlier 1958 version, at the very least a version which does not meet the criteria for originality.
2022. Greasy Scummy Sumps: Translating Specialized Terminology in Detective Fiction. Przekładaniec :Special issue 1/2022 ► pp. 70 ff.
Linder, Daniel & Joanna Sobesto
2020. Zbiorniki ze stęchłymi ściekami: przekład specjalistycznej terminologii w powieści detektywistycznej, przełożyła Joanna Sobesto. Przekładaniec :40 ► pp. 105 ff.
Wörtche, Thomas
2020. Chandler, Raymond: The Big Sleep. In Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (KLL), ► pp. 1 ff.
Bianchi, Diana & Federico Zanettin
2018. ‘Under surveillance’. An introduction to popular fiction in translation. Perspectives 26:6 ► pp. 793 ff.
Dinçkan, Yeşim
2010. Culture-Bound Collocations in Bestsellers: A Study of Their Translations from English into Turkish. Meta 55:3 ► pp. 456 ff.
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