"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge": anàlisi de tres traduccions del relat biercià: Bianco, Sellent i Moreno-Ruiz

Cerdà Mollà, Francesca, 1994-

"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge": anàlisi de tres traduccions del relat biercià: Bianco, Sellent i Moreno-Ruiz

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Cerdà Mollà, F. "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge": anàlisi de tres traduccions del relat biercià: Bianco, Sellent i Moreno-Ruiz. 2016. handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10230/30779

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Abstract

Critics have insisted on Ambrose Bierce's influence upon later writers as renowned as Crane, Hemingway, or Borges. Yet, the reception of this 19th century author in Spain was relatively late and it was not until the nineties that a significant appreciation of Bierce took place. His translations into Spanish and Catalan have remained, however, a practically unexplored field. The aim of the present work is thus to offer a critical approach to some of the translations made in these two languages. This article focuses on the analysis of three translations of his short story «An Occcurrence at Owl Creek Bridge», those by José Bianco, José luis Moreno-Ruiz and Joan Sellent. The analysis is based on a previous study of the most defining features of the author's style and the narrative techniques which make «An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge» Bierce'smost acclaimed tale. It focuses first on the semantic aspects which cause more difficulties in translation, such as military terms or sarcasm. Subsequently, it centres into the translation of the formal aspects which are to be maintained on account of their effect on the reader's perception of the story, such as punctuation, syntax or rhetorical devices. In this process, we compare the three translations with the source text and discuss the translators' solutions, considering to what extent these translations reflect the characteristic components of both the author's prose and the tale taken into account. The results show three very different approaches to Ambrose Bierce's style, while they allow us to est ablish a link between José Bianco's version of «An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge» and those by Herrero and Areca (1963), and Alonso de Ilera (1998).