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Publication details [#20551]

Borges, Jorge Luis. 2000. The translators of The thousand and one nights. In Venuti, Lawrence and Mona Baker. The Translation Studies reader. London: Routledge. pp. 34–48.
Publication type
Article in jnl/bk
Publication language
English
Keywords
18th century | 19th century | 20th century | adaptation | comparative research=contrastive research | ideology | literary translation | shift
Edition info
Translated by Esther Allen.
Translation of
Borges, Jorge Luis. 1996. Los traductores de las 1001 noches [The translators of the thousand and one nights]. In : 107–138.

Abstract

The article constitutes a commentary on the different 'translations' of this work into French and German between 1700 and 1930. For instance, the first translation, by Galland (1707-1717), includes new tales, which afterwards were retranslated into other European languages and Arabic. The article also dwells on ideological shifts.
Source : Based on BITRA / J. Franco