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Chapter 3. A transatlantic flow of Spanish and Catalan romans-à-clef

Translators, publishers, and censors from Argentina to Franco’s Spain
  • Sofía Monzón Rodríguez
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Abstract

This chapter explores the editions of romans-à-clef written by Henry Miller, Anaïs Nin, and Lawrence Durrell, those that traveled from South America to the Iberian Peninsula in the 1960s, and the Spanish and Catalan translations carried out domestically in Spain. It aims to identify the network of agents that facilitated the translations by examining archival material on the circulation and reception of the works included in my case studies: Miller’s Tropic of Cancer and Black Spring, Nin’s A Spy in the House of Love and Ladders to Fire, and Durrell’s Justine and Balthazar, which arrived in Franco’s Spain (sometimes smuggled editions, often censored versions and even “non-translations”). With this documentary material, I illustrate how the translators, publishers and censors involved in this translation flow between North America, Argentina and Francoist Spain interacted to shape the reception of these novels for the Spanish and Catalan readership.

Abstract

This chapter explores the editions of romans-à-clef written by Henry Miller, Anaïs Nin, and Lawrence Durrell, those that traveled from South America to the Iberian Peninsula in the 1960s, and the Spanish and Catalan translations carried out domestically in Spain. It aims to identify the network of agents that facilitated the translations by examining archival material on the circulation and reception of the works included in my case studies: Miller’s Tropic of Cancer and Black Spring, Nin’s A Spy in the House of Love and Ladders to Fire, and Durrell’s Justine and Balthazar, which arrived in Franco’s Spain (sometimes smuggled editions, often censored versions and even “non-translations”). With this documentary material, I illustrate how the translators, publishers and censors involved in this translation flow between North America, Argentina and Francoist Spain interacted to shape the reception of these novels for the Spanish and Catalan readership.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Foreword vii
  4. Part 1. Historical flows
  5. Chapter 1. A naïve inquiry into translation between Aboriginal languages in pre-Invasion Australia 3
  6. Chapter 2. The circulation of knowledge vs the mobility of translation, or how mobile are translators and translations? 23
  7. Chapter 3. A transatlantic flow of Spanish and Catalan romans-à-clef 43
  8. Chapter 4. Recognition versus redistribution? 69
  9. Chapter 5. From intersection to interculture 87
  10. Part 2. Current flows
  11. Chapter 6. Recirculated, recontextualized, reworked 107
  12. Chapter 7. Nollywood and indigenous language translation flows 129
  13. Chapter 8. Maryse Condé and the Alternative Nobel Prize of 2018 149
  14. Chapter 9. The role of literary agents in the international flow of texts 163
  15. Chapter 10. Flowing to the reception side 183
  16. Chapter 11. The tidalectics of translation 207
  17. Chapter 12. Combining translation policy and imagology 225
  18. Notes on the authors 247
  19. Index 251
https://doi.org/10.1075/btl.163.03mon

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Foreword vii
  4. Part 1. Historical flows
  5. Chapter 1. A naïve inquiry into translation between Aboriginal languages in pre-Invasion Australia 3
  6. Chapter 2. The circulation of knowledge vs the mobility of translation, or how mobile are translators and translations? 23
  7. Chapter 3. A transatlantic flow of Spanish and Catalan romans-à-clef 43
  8. Chapter 4. Recognition versus redistribution? 69
  9. Chapter 5. From intersection to interculture 87
  10. Part 2. Current flows
  11. Chapter 6. Recirculated, recontextualized, reworked 107
  12. Chapter 7. Nollywood and indigenous language translation flows 129
  13. Chapter 8. Maryse Condé and the Alternative Nobel Prize of 2018 149
  14. Chapter 9. The role of literary agents in the international flow of texts 163
  15. Chapter 10. Flowing to the reception side 183
  16. Chapter 11. The tidalectics of translation 207
  17. Chapter 12. Combining translation policy and imagology 225
  18. Notes on the authors 247
  19. Index 251
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