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Javier Marias's Debt to Translation - Sterne, Browne, Nabokov (Hardcover)
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Javier Marias's Debt to Translation - Sterne, Browne, Nabokov (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs
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This is a book about translation and literary influence. It takes
as its subject Spain's most important contemporary novelist, Javier
Marias (1951-), who worked as a literary translator for a
significant portion of his early career. Since then, he has
maintained that translation had a crucial impact on the development
of his writing style and his literary frame of reference. It
examines his claims to the influence of three writers whose works
he translated, Laurence Sterne, Sir Thomas Browne, and Vladimir
Nabokov. It does so by engaging in close reading of his
translations, examining how he meets the linguistic, syntactic, and
cultural challenges they present. His prolonged engagement with
their prose is then set alongside his own novels and short stories,
the better to discern precisely how and in what ways his works have
been shaped by their influence and through translation. Hence this
study begins by asking why Marias should have turned to translation
in the cultural landscape of Spain in the 1970s and how the
ideological standpoints that animated his decision affect the way
he translates. His translation of Sterne's Life and Opinions of
Tristram Shandy, Gentleman is set alongside his
pseudo-autobiographical novel Negra espalda del tiempo (Dark Back
of Time), while his translation of Sir Thomas Browne's Urn Burial
is then analysed in tandem with that produced by Jorge Luis Borges
and Adolfo Bioy Casares. Subsequent chapters examine how Browne's
prose has shaped Marias's thinking on oblivion, posterity, and
time. The final chapters offer an analysis of the partial
translation and palimpsest of Lolita he undertook in the early
1990s and of his most ambitious novel to date, Tu rostro manana
(Your Face Tomorrow), as a work in which characterization is
underpinned by both literary allusion and the hydridization of
works Marias has translated.
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