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The Slovene short story in English translation: survey and considerations
ID Cooper, Henry R. (Author)

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Abstract
The Slovene short story in English translation is a small but important window through which the English-reading world can see Slovenia as it is imagined by some of its finest writers. Just since 1991 over 130 short stories have been published by more than three dozen Slovene authors, about a quarter of whom are women. The themes of most of these stories show Slovenia in a somewhat grim light, with tales of escape (through suicide, travel, fantasy, insanity), horror stories about family life (often detailing crimes against or by children), and explicit vivisections of male-female relationships abounding. Many of these stories lack any Slovene couleur locale; the only characteristic that makes them Slovene is their language. The paper makes particular note of English translations done by Slovene authors themselves (specifically Branko Gradišnik, Evald Flisar, Uroš Kalčič, Maja Novak, and Andrej Skubic), and the liberties author-translators take when rendering their works in a new linguistic environment. It speculates a bit on the nature and future of what might be considered to be a new genre.

Language:English
Keywords:Slovene literature, Slovene prose, short prose, Slovene short story, translations into English, Slovene-English literary translation
Typology:1.16 - Independent Scientific Component Part or a Chapter in a Monograph
Organization:FF - Faculty of Arts
Year:2006
Number of pages:Str. 495-512
PID:20.500.12556/RUL-158441 This link opens in a new window
UDC:821.163.6:81'25
COBISS.SI-ID:25781549 This link opens in a new window
Publication date in RUL:10.06.2024
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Record is a part of a monograph

Title:Slovenska kratka pripovedna proza
Editors:Irena Novak-Popov
Place of publishing:Ljubljana
Publisher:Filozofska fakulteta, Oddelek za slovenistiko, Center za slovenščino kot drugi/tuji jezik
Year:2006
ISBN:961-237-172-5
COBISS.SI-ID:229730560 This link opens in a new window
Collection title:Obdobja
Collection numbering:23

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Language:Slovenian
Abstract:
Slovenska kratka pripovedna proza v angleških prevodih je majhno, vendar pomembno okno, skozi katerega lahko angleško beroči svet vidi Slovenijo, kakor si jo zamišljajo nekateri najboljši pisatelji. Samo od leta 1991 naprej je bilo objavljenih več kot 130 kratkih zgodb več kot treh ducatov avtorjev, med katerimi je četrtina žensk. Teme večine zgodb prikazujejo Slovenijo v precej mračni luči, s pripovedmi o begu (s pomočjo samomora, potovanja, domišljije, norosti), z grozljivimi zgodbami o družinskem življenju (pogoste so podrobnosti zločinov nad otroki ali z otroki kot storilci) ali pa v njih avtorji razvidno secirajo odnose med moškim in žensko. V mnogih zgodbah manjka vsakršna slovenska lokalna obarvanost; edina značilnost, ki jih dela slovenske, je jezik. Razprava se posebej posveča angleškim prevodom, ki so jih napravili avtorji sami (zlasti Brako Gradišnik, Evald Flisar, Uroš Kalčič, Maja Novak in Andrej Skubic), in svoboščinam, ki so si jih avtorji-prevajalci dovolili, ko so svoje delo prestavili v novo jezikovno okolje. Nekoliko razglablja tudi o naravi in prihodnosti nečesa, kar bi lahko pojmovali kot nov žanr.

Keywords:slovenska književnost, slovenska proza, kratka proza, slovenska kratka zgodba, prevodi v angleščino, Slovene-English literary translation

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