The concept of ‘Trinity’ in Dante’s Paradise as reflected in Romanian translations
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Faculty of Letters, “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University, Bd. Carol I 11, 700506 Iași, Romania
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Received April 17, 2015
Accepted May 13, 2015
Published July 17, 2015
Abstract
The translator of Dante’s Paradise is faced with a double difficulty. The first results from the limitation—inherent in the human condition—to express the ineffable, which the author experiences; the second stems from the difficulty of language that Dante himself builds in order to overcome the first difficulty. The success or the failure of a translation is measured in terms of how much of the original message the translator manages to make available to the reader in a foreign language, and this percentage can only be revealed by comparative analysis. Therefore, this paper starts from a comparative analysis between the original text of the Paradise and its Romanian translations, with a focus on the contexts that foster the concept of ‘Trinity’; the analysis carried out on the Romanian versions revealed both successful equivalences, semantically and formally faithful to the original, and cases of “betrayal” of the original text.
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Export citationText: Ungureanu, C. (2015). The concept of ‘Trinity’ in Dante’s Paradise as reflected in Romanian translations, Diacronia 2 (July 17), A19 (1–6), https://doi.org/10.17684/i2A19en BibTeX: @ARTICLE{ungureanu2015,
author = {Cristian Ungureanu},
title = {The concept of ‘Trinity’ in Dante’s Paradise as reflected in Romanian translations},
journal = {Diacronia},
ISSN = {2393-1140},
year = {2015},
month = {July},
number = {2},
eid = {A19},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.17684/i2A19en},
pages = "(1–6)",
url = {https://www.diacronia.ro/journal/issue/2/A19/en}
}
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