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Publication details [#2604]
Schmitt, Christian. 1996. Das sprachliche Experiment als Übersetzungsproblem: ein Beitrag zur französisch-deutschen Literaturübersetzung [The linguistic experiment as a problem of translation: a contribution to literary translation from French into German]. In Lauer, Angelika, Heidrun Gerzymisch-Arbogast, Johann Haller and Erich Steiner, eds. Übersetzungswissenschaft im Umbruch: Festschrift für Wolfram Wills am 70. Geburtstag [Translation Studies on the turn: festschrift for Wolfram Wills on his 70th birthday]. Tübingen: Gunter Narr. pp. 95–106.
Publication type
Article in jnl/bk
Publication language
German
Keywords
Source language
Target language
Person as a subject
Title as subject
Abstract
Schmitt's paper reflects on the translation and translatability of literary texts that experiment with form and language. He observes that the discipline of translation studies marginalises literary translation and even rejects a scientific approach to it. The available theories limit themselves to the discussion of text types and text functions, and do not offer tools to tackle experimental literature. To illustrate this problem, the author discusses La disparition by Georges Perec, a novel that explicitly deals with language and its structures.
Source : I. Van linthout