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Beckett's collaborative translations in the 1950s
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Author
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Abstract
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| In the 1950s, Samuel Beckett worked together with a number of writer-translators on English, French and German versions of his novels and plays. This article studies the material traces of these collaborations to analyse the collaborations as a crucial phase in a 4-step process toward a poetics of bilingualism, consisting of (1) writing in another language, (2) collaborating on the translations, (3) eventually giving preference to self-translation, and (4) finally presenting his work as a bilingual oeuvre. Beckett also appears to have played a greater part in his German translations than hitherto assumed, which calls for a reassessment of Becketts trilingual engagement with his work in the development of a bilingual poetics. |
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Language
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English
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Source (journal)
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Samuel Beckett today : an annual bilingual review. - Amsterdam, 1992, currens
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Publication
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Amsterdam
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Rodopi
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2018
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ISSN
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0927-3131
[print]
1875-7405
[online]
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DOI
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10.1163/18757405-03001002
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Volume/pages
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30
:1
(2018)
, p. 19-37
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Full text (Publisher's DOI)
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Full text (open access)
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