Traducció al català i anàlisi de Papel mojado, una novel·la de Juan José Millás

Rios i Vergés, Helena

Traducció al català i anàlisi de Papel mojado, una novel·la de Juan José Millás

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Rios i Vergés, H. Traducció al català i anàlisi de Papel mojado, una novel·la de Juan José Millás. 2022. handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10230/53820

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The production of translations of literary works from Spanish to Catalan is low in comparison to other language combinations due to the intelligibility and proficiency in both languages by Catalan readers. The purpose of this paper is to help normalize this type of translations and to highlight the use of Catalan’s own colloquial words and expressions, especially in young adult literature. For this reason, three chapters of the novel Papel mojado by Juan José Millás are translated and an analysis regarding its relevant characteristics is carried out related to translation difficulties in this language combination. Reiss’s concept of equivalence (2000) and Nord’s functionalist approach (1996) have been used as a theoretical basis when having to make translation choices and in the later analysis. This work delivers a translation proposal of a fragment of the novel whose author had never been translated into Catalan. In addition, there are different translation solutions of naturalized Spanish loanwords in Catalan which belong to a colloquial register, among other incorrect loan translations taken from Spanish. Thus, this will help to normalize the translation of literature in Spanish into Catalan, without it being driven by the unintelligibility between two languages.