STRATEGIES OF A TRANSLATOR SPECIALIZED IN THE TRANSLATION OF A LITERARY FRAGMENT

Abstract

This research aimed to identify, to describe and to analyze the technical procedures used by the translator in order to solve the problems faced during the translation act. In this case, it was randomly chosen a fragment of the second part from the novel Memoria de mis putas tristes, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The theoretical framework is based on the concepts of professional translation (MAYORAL, 1994; STUPIELLO, 2006); literary translation (CASTILLO, 2016; CATENARO, 2008); translation competence (ESPINOSA, 2011); and technical translation procedures (BARBOSA, 2004). The corpus consists on a fragment from the mentioned literary workwhich was analyzed considering the categorization and hierarchization purpose according to Barbosa (2004).  The results showed an intensive use (80%) of the procedures listed within the oblique translation (increment, equivalence, modulation, omission) and only (20%) within the direct translation (word by word translation and literal translation). The data allowed to prove that the translator have found more divergence than convergence of the linguistic systems and the styles between the pair of languages in contact, and this explain the majority expedient to procedures which would be normally applied to the literary translation in this magnitude.