Otras cartas a Susan de Emily Dickinson

Vizoso Perelló, Lucía

Otras cartas a Susan de Emily Dickinson

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Vizoso Perelló, L. Otras cartas a Susan de Emily Dickinson. 2022. handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10230/53984

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Abstract

One third of the more than a thousand surviving letters from the great American poet Emily Dickinson are addressed to her friend and sister-in-law Susan Gilbert, with whom she had a relationship that current critics consider to be romantic. The letters to Susan contain poems, and in some cases are poetic epistles. There is only one recent translation of Dickinson’s letters to Gilbert, but it does not cover the entire corpus. The aim of this paper is to complement this translation to obtain a complete image of the poet. For this purpose, firstly, since her work is fundamentally based on her biography, the most relevant aspects of her life as a woman writer in the United States in the nineteenth century are analysed. Secondly, in order to illustrate the peculiarities of Dickinson’s work, a corpus of twenty letters is examined, selected from those letters that have not yet been translated into Spanish, with their respective commented translations. The results of the paper highlight the characteristics of the author’s work and the difficulties involved in translating it, both in terms of the form and content, and the delicacy of working with a work that has been a victim of bad publishing practices for over a century.