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Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

Abstract: This paper presents an integral approach to the translation practices of Galician writer Rosalía de Castro, paying special attention to the historic and sociological context. First of all, we will present the self-translation of some of her poems from Galician into Spanish. In the second place, we will analyze the implications of the continuous transfer of the topics and expressive motives between her work in Galician language (especially in verse) and her work in Spanish language (especially in prose). Finally, we will examine her translations into Galician of some poems by Salamanca poet Ventura Ruiz Aguilera, in which the poet deliberately renounces to the exegetical ideal of the verbum pro verbo version. The introduction, in the target texts, of very innovative keys in regard to the source text, allows us to consider these texts as “mistranslations”, while it confirms the deliberatively subversive sense of Rosalía de Castro’s translations.

Keywords: Spain, Galicia, 19th century, translation, poetry, Rosalía de Castro, Ventura Ruiz Aguilera

Aunque hayan sido relativamente desatendidas hasta el momento,1 las traducciones poéticas de Rosalía de Castro merecen ser consideradas como elementos muy relevantes de su actividad literaria. Cualquier poema traducido proporciona indicios valiosos sobre el modo de escribir de quien traduce, pero la escasez de manuscritos de la autora gallega justifica doblemente el análisis de sus versiones poéticas, llamado a resolver incógnitas relacionadas con el ámbito de...