TY - JOUR
TI - In the Mirror of Translation. The Translator’s Biography of Cristina Campo
AU - Ślarzyńska, Małgorzata
TI - In the Mirror of Translation. The Translator’s Biography of Cristina Campo
AB - The subject of this article is the translation work of the Italian writer Cristina Campo (born Vittoria Guerrini), one of the most prominent Italian writers of the 20th century, poet, translator, and essayist, analysed in a biographical key. The aim is to look more closely at Cristina Campo’s biography – described so far in the only biography book (De Stefano 2002), but also recorded in the voluminous correspondence the writer left behind – through the framework of her translation activity. Of interest from this point of view become both her translation choices and reading choices (“the lovely kinsmen of the shelf,” as the writer called her favourite books) – related to a large extent to Campo’s literary temperament, her experiences in her private life, and her friends – as well as her choice of translation activity itself, largely conditioned by the need to spend a large part of her life in seclusion due to the incurable heart disease that Campo suffered from since her birth. An attempt will be made to answer the question of how illness and other life circumstances influenced her choice of translation activity, the selection of texts to be translated and the translator’s actual working conditions.
VL - 2023
IS - Numer 47 – Biografie tłumaczy
PY - 2023
SN - 1425-6851
C1 - 1689-1864
SP - 147
EP - 164
DO - 10.4467/16891864PC.23.020.18851
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/przekladaniec/article/w-lustrze-przekladu-translatorska-biografia-cristiny-campo
KW - Cristina Campo
KW - Translator Studies
KW - translator’s biography
KW - Italian literature
KW - poetry translation
KW - literary translation in Italy