The Idea of Translation in 'Ancient Tillage', by Raduan Nassar
Can, Nazir Ahmed (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

Imprint:	New York : Routledge, 2022
Description:	14 pàg.
Abstract:	Indirectly used as a theme and as a method, translation becomes a "contemporary metaphor" (Ribeiro, "A tradução") in several Portuguese-language narratives of the 20th and 21st centuries and, particularly, in Ancient Tillage (2016 [1975]) by Raduan Nassar, the most important Brazilian writer of Lebanese origin. The narrative focuses on a family nucleus that, tensely, inherits Arab and Western influences, both characterized by moral rigidity. Appropriating a conservative interpretation of the Bible and of the Qur'an, the narrator refuses the idea of transparency that structures the imaginary and offers an unusual density to the Portuguese language. I will therefore analyze how the author, operating with instruments like those of the translator, inscribes the "other" as an antidote against autophagy, the untranslatable as a driver of reflection, betrayal as a practical alternative (Ricoeur, Sobre a tradução), and creation as an expression of a desire (Berman, L'épreuve de l'étranger).
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Capítol de llibre ; recerca ; Versió acceptada per publicar
Subject:	Raduan Nassar ; Ancient Tillage ; Arabic diaspora ; Translation
Published in:	Twenty-First Century Arab and African Diasporas in Spain, Portugal and Latin America, 2022, p. 237-250, ISBN 9781032424293, DOI 10.4324/9781003245117

DOI: 10.4324/9781003245117-19

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