The Birthday of the Infanta, de oscar wilde: análise de tradução com ênfase em estruturas sintáticas complexas

Abstract

Researching literary translation is – for several reasons – something very complex, firstly due to its own definition. Based on literary conceptions and on Translation Studies, this research presents a comparative analysis and exhibits how three translators proceeded in translating the three longest passages of the short story The Birthday of the Infanta by Oscar Wilde. The analysis, based on conceptions of Paulo Henriques Britto, Valentín García-Yebra, and Clifford E. Landers, allows us to affirm the proximity between original and translation, in the three cases. Although more common in the 1980s, the type of comparative analysis adopted here remains valid, as it allows us to verify the consonance between translation practice and current theoretical concepts.