The Angered Italian Translator: from Pomes Penyeach to Finn’s Hotel

Ilaria Natali

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Chapter 15 The Angered Italian Translator: from Pomes Penyeach to Finn’s Hotel

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Pages:: 285–299

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004427419_017

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This chapter analyses and compares different Italian translations of Pomes Penyeach by detailing some specific translation issues cast in broader theoretical questions. If every translation is only partial by nature, this feature seems to be somehow exasperated in the case of Joyce’s poems. The numerous obscurities and ambiguities in the original texts open the way to radically different interpretations that coexist and complement each other. Translators keep discovering and exploring new meanings, apparently without exhausting the potential of the source text. The Italian versions of Pomes Penyeach change according to transformations in the target cultural context. However, the original texts present additional and less conventional problems of durability due to the multiple attempts to re-define the Joycean corpus over the years. This is the case with the controversial publication of the collection Finn’s Hotel in 2013, containing two prose fragments that include and frame the lines of “Tutto è sciolto” and “Nightpiece.” Regardless of whether Joyce considered the pieces in Finn’s Hotel as independent works or early drafts for Finnegans Wake, a doubt is cast on the status of the two poems, which could now be read – and translated – according to new criteria.

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Retranslating Joyce for the 21st Century

Series: European Joyce Studies, Volume: 30 and European Joyce Studies, Volume: 30

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004427419

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 16 Apr 2020

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