Translator's Doubts

Vladimir Nabokov and the Ambiguity of Translation

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

Av Julia Trubikhina

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Using Vladimir Nabokov as its “case study,” this volume approaches translation as a crucial avenue into literary history and theory, philosophy and interpretation. The book attempts to bring together issues in translation and the shift in Nabokov studies from its earlier emphasis on the “metaliterary” to the more recent “metaphysical” approach. Addressing specific texts (both literary and cinematic), the book investigates Nabokov’s deeply ambivalent relationship to translation as a hermeneutic oscillation on his part between the relative stability of meaning, which expresses itself philosophically as a faith in the beyond, and deep metaphysical uncertainty. While Nabokov’s practice of translation changes profoundly over the course of his career, his adherence to the Romantic notion of a “true” but ultimately elusive metaphysical language remained paradoxically constant.

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Utgivningsdatum2018-06-14
Mått155 x 234 x 14 mm
Vikt389 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieCultural Revolutions: Russia in the Twentieth Century
Antal sidor248
FörlagAcademic Studies Press
ISBN9781618118295

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Julia Trubikhina received her PhD in Comparative Literature with a specialization in Slavic studies from New York University. She teaches in the Department of Classics and Oriental Studies at Hunter College, CUNY. In addition to articles and reviews in academic journals (most recently, “A Discrete Amalgam: New York Poets from the Former Soviet Union” in Canadian-American Slavic Studies), Julia Trubikhina (as Julia Trubikhina-Kunina) also published translations and contributed original poetry to Russian, European, and American anthologies and literary journals. She is currently working on two translation projects: a bilingual edition of poetry by Vladimir Aristov for Ugly Duckling Presse and a volume of poetry and prose by Elena Shvarts.

AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1: Nabokov’s Beginnings: “Ania” in Wonderland or “Does Asparagus Grow in a Pile of Manure?”Chapter 2: The Novel on Translation and “über-Translation”: Nabokov’s Pale Fire and Eugene OneginChapter 3: “Cinemizing” as Translation: Nabokov’s Screenplay of Lolita and Stanley Kubrick’s and Adrian Lyne’s Cinematic VersionsConclusion: Vladimir Nabokov within the Russian and Western Traditions of TranslationSelected BibliographyIndex

Winner of The Samuel Schuman Prize for the Best First Book on Nabokov (International Vladimir Nabokov Society)“The Translator’s Doubts is a striking departure from the traditional studies of Nabokov’s work as a translator. Not only does it mark a significant shift in critical perspective, but it also uses Nabokov as a means to a greater end — a meditation on “literary history and theory, philosophy and interpretation” (11) — with value far beyond the world of Nabokov criticism. . . .Each chapter, even taken separately, adds hugely to the corpus of Nabokov criticism, from philology and archival scholarship to new theoretical perspectives. [Trubikhina’s] sophisticated and insightful work will surely become one of the touchstone texts on Nabokov and translation for years to come.”— Bryan Karetnyk, University College London, Nabokov Online Journal, Vol. X–XI (2016/2017)