The Translator as Host
Keywords:
host, huésped, anfitrión, translation, deconstruction, J.H. Miller.
Abstract
The following paper compares two translations from English to Spanish of the essay “The Critic as Host” by the American author Joseph Hillis Miller: one is the translation made by Manuel Asensi and María Gimeno (Teoría literaria y deconstrucción, ARCO/LIBROS); the other by Susana Guardado y del Castro (Deconstrucción y crítica, Siglo XXI). We will be especially focusing on the translation of the term host, which is translated by Asensi and Gimeno as anfitrión, while it is translated by Guardado del Castro alternatively both as huésped and as anfitrión. The comparative analysis will lead us to the following hypothesis: the translation resignifies Miller’s essay in a parasitical way (in the same way that Miller does in his essay), in such a manner that the translation by Guardado y del Castro deploys the deconstruction of the essay and acts out the possibility/impossibility of the translation. We will base our hypothesis on the thinking of Jacques Derrida about translation.Downloads
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Garayalde N. (2017). The Translator as Host. Estudios de Traducción, 7, 9-24. https://doi.org/10.5209/ESTR.57445
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