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| In her article [[https://latinamericanliteraturetoday.org/2019/11/translating-unspeakable-fragments-vision-de-los-hijos-del-mal-miguel-angel-bustos/|"Translating the unspeakable: On the fragments of Visión de los hijos del mal by Miguel Ángel Bustos"]], translator Lucina Schell discusses the fragmentary structure of Bustos' poems and explains her translation choices and strategies: | In her article [[https://latinamericanliteraturetoday.org/2019/11/translating-unspeakable-fragments-vision-de-los-hijos-del-mal-miguel-angel-bustos/|"Translating the unspeakable: On the fragments of Visión de los hijos del mal by Miguel Ángel Bustos"]], translator Lucina Schell discusses the fragmentary structure of Bustos' poems and explains her translation choices and strategies: |
| "To rewrite Bustos with literal fidelity in English would be plagiarism—and like plagiarism, it would lack the force of the original. To succeed my attempt must be incomplete, the tension between my English and the Spanish creating sparks just like the tension contained in the nucleus of the fragment itself" ((Schell, Lucina. "Translating the unspeakable: On the fragments of Visión de los hijos del mal by Miguel Ángel Bustos." //Latin American Literature Today//, issue 12, https://latinamericanliteraturetoday.org/2019/11/translating-unspeakable-fragments-vision-de-los-hijos-del-mal-miguel-angel-bustos/)) | "To rewrite Bustos with literal fidelity in English would be plagiarism—and like plagiarism, it would lack the force of the original. To succeed my attempt must be incomplete, the tension between my English and the Spanish creating sparks just like the tension contained in the nucleus of the fragment itself"((Schell, Lucina. "Translating the unspeakable: On the fragments of Visión de los hijos del mal by Miguel Ángel Bustos." //Latin American Literature Today//, issue 12, https://latinamericanliteraturetoday.org/2019/11/translating-unspeakable-fragments-vision-de-los-hijos-del-mal-miguel-angel-bustos/)) |
| Using Donald Revell's analysis of poetic fragments, she describes her grammatical choices for translating Bustos' fragments into English in terms of clause structure, punctuation marks, word preferences, transformations, and omissions to better illustrate the irony and juxtaposition of the fragments. | Using Donald Revell's analysis of poetic fragments, she describes her grammatical choices for translating Bustos' fragments into English in terms of clause structure, punctuation marks, word preferences, transformations, and omissions to better illustrate the irony and juxtaposition of the fragments. |
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