TRANSLATING VERBAL HUMOUR IN ACHILLE CAMPANILE’S «AGOSTO, MOGLIE MIA NON TI CONOSCO»
- Svitlana Hryhorivna Nohovska
, - Taras Vasylovych Lazer
Abstract
Achille Campanile (1899–1977) is regarded as a founder of Italian grotesque humoristic prose, whose poetics rest on absurd dialogue, logical paradox and wordplay, growing directly out of his work for the “teatro del grottesco”. His novel Agosto, moglie mia non ti conosco (1930) generates its comic effect not at the level of plot but at the level of language itself – through puns, speaking names, register clashes and absurd non-sequiturs sustained across entire dialogic scenes. This determines the relevance of systematising the theoretical grounds for translating literary humour prior to their practical application within the master’s thesis and of verifying these grounds against concrete translation decisions already made in the accompanying translation project. The aim of the paper is twofold: to outline the theoretical framework informing the Ukrainian translation of Campanile’s comic prose, and to illustrate its explanatory power on several representative translation solutions. Theoretical framework.Author Biography
Svitlana Hryhorivna Nohovska
PhD in Philology, Master’s Degree student; Department of Romance Philology; Faculty of Romance and Germanic Philology
Taras Vasylovych Lazer
PhD in Philology, Associate Professor; Department of Romance Philology; Faculty of Romance and Germanic Philology
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