Tradução no contexto da Era Vargas: Érico Veríssimo, tradutor de Aldous Huxley

• Ano de defesa: 2014
• Autor(a) principal: Souto, Sheila Maria Tabosa Silva
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal da Paraí­ba; BR; Letras; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras; UFPB
• Palavras-chave em Português: Erico Veríssimo; Aldous Huxley; Tradutor; Contraponto; Editora Globo; Ideologia; Governo Vargas; Translator; Point counter point; Globe Publishing House; Ideology; Vargas Government; LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LETRAS
• Link de acesso: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/tede/6296

The present work analyzes Erico Veríssimo as a translator of Point counter point (1928) by Aldous Huxley in Globe Publishing House. His translation, Contraponto (1934), is analyzed in the context of translation and ideology of Vargas Age, a nationalist and authoritarian government. The methodology is developed via cultural transferences, and it intends to comprehend the trajectory of Erico Veríssimo as a translator and remake the translation process of Point counter point. The profile of the translator Veríssimo is initially traced through his first experiences at Globe Magazine, where he published rapid translations, inventing pseudonyms for them. Later on, he published translations of books internationally known and the translation process occurred in an elevated and more elaborated standard. The route and the choice of Contraponto translation initially presented an editorial audacity of Veríssimo, who risked commercially, once the literary work was dense and the author was not known in Brazil. However, it was a decisive point to the translator Veríssimo and to the divulgation of Huxley in Brazil. Contraponto became a best-seller and an editorial milestone. It was published in the Nobel Collection, which brings to the ordinary reader and the intellectuals of that epoch the translation of literary works of international repercussion, raising and enriching culturally its public. The editorial policy of Globe in translating the world classics is linked to the nationalist ideals of Vargas in valuing the role of vernacular language and the education in the search for an identity for the Nation. In a selective textual analysis from the concepts of specific cultural items in translation by Aixelá and the Theory of Polisystems, it is highlighted that translation is marked by conservation strategy (repetition), in a tendency of adequacy. The translation of Veríssimo permits the visualization of marks of foreign culture. Moreover, it does not nationalize cultural specificities, adding new information to the reader. With the concepts of translation and ideology brought by Lefevere, it is understood that rewriting can be inspired by ideological motivations. Therefore, it could be associated that Contraponto approaches ideological questions related to fascism, linking them to Vargas Age, with which had totalitarian similarities.