Traducció comentada de Buried Child de Sam Shepard

Mira i Alonso, Àlvaro

Traducció comentada de Buried Child de Sam Shepard

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Mira i Alonso, À. Traducció comentada de Buried Child de Sam Shepard. 2020. handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10230/46498

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Abstract

Buried Child, as well as its author, Sam Shepard, are still to be discovered by the reader in Catalan. The main purpose of this paper is to translate for the first time in Catalan the 1979 Pulitzer winner. This theater play revolves around the concept of American family and the unyielding return to individual roots. Through the different characters, Shepard successfully dismantles piece by piece the assumptions of the traditional American family under the pretext of a secret never revealed. Apart from the translation, this paper also includes the theoretical context of the play and its author, as well as an analysis of the main translation challenges encountered: syntactic structures, cultural terms, baseball vocabulary and text orality, among others. In conclusion, the translation responds to the lack of translation in Catalan of great literary works, especially those recognized with prestigious international prizes, and still to be translated into Catalan.