OS ESTUDOS DA TRADUÇÃO E CONSIDERAÇÕES SOBRE O PROCESSO TRADUTÓRIO DE FRAGMENTOS DE ULYSSES, DE JAMES JOYCE.

Abstract

This academic study seeks to analyze the choices made by the translators of Ulysses (1922) by James Joyce, during the translation process to Portuguese language in Brazil. We intend to study the technical procedures and procedural choices of translation, performed by Houaiss, Bernardina and Antonio Galindo employed in the act of translation, through a comparative method. We also intend to identify the effect that shines the essence of the work, which reflects on the reader´s understanding, and as the translation interferes in the transference process between the source language and the target language, for this, we will consider the concepts regarding to the aesthetics of reception suggested by Jauss (1982). Thus, the first chapter will present an overview of the translation history at different times and worlds in order to contextualize its appearance and how the research was carried out in this area and what contributions scholars and theorists have left as a legacy in order to make that currently discussion possible. The second chapter will deal with the translation as a complex phenomenon, and examines the difficulties faced by translators, possible solutions relating to the translation of technical procedures, and the loss and loyalty and the translator´s feelings regarding to this task. It also shows that this translation process involves much more that the transfer of meanings. The third chapter will discuss how the reception of the three translations of Ulysses was accepted in Brazil, including a comparative analysis of these translations, which will be observed in the choices of the translators, possible losses and direction changes. Finally, the reception of Ulysses based on assumptions made by Jauss and his seven theses developed to explain the receptivity of a literary work.