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Translation Flows: Exploring networks of people, processes and products
Edited by Ilse Feinauer, Amanda Marais and Marius Swart
[Benjamins Translation Library 163] 2023
► pp. 43–67

Chapter 3
A transatlantic flow of Spanish and Catalan romans-à-clef

Translators, publishers, and censors from Argentina to Franco’s Spain

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This chapter explores the editions of romans-à-clef written by Henry Miller, Anaïs Nin, and Lawrence Durrell, those that traveled from South America to the Iberian Peninsula in the 1960s, and the Spanish and Catalan translations carried out domestically in Spain. It aims to identify the network of agents that facilitated the translations by examining archival material on the circulation and reception of the works included in my case studies: Miller’s Tropic of Cancer and Black Spring, Nin’s A Spy in the House of Love and Ladders to Fire, and Durrell’s Justine and Balthazar, which arrived in Franco’s Spain (sometimes smuggled editions, often censored versions and even “non-translations”). With this documentary material, I illustrate how the translators, publishers and censors involved in this translation flow between North America, Argentina and Francoist Spain interacted to shape the reception of these novels for the Spanish and Catalan readership.

Keywords: translation flows, imported translations, author-translator, censorship, romans-à-clef
Article outline
  • A transatlantic flow of translations in Franco’s Spain
  • The editorial market under Francoism: A need for translations
  • Negotiating the translation flow: Recurrent publishers and translators
  • First readers, second readers
  • Coda
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 9 October 2023
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https://doi.org/10.1075/btl.163.03mon
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