Análisis contrastivo de La sombra sobre Innsmouth de H. P. Lovecraft

Segura Navas, Cristina

Análisis contrastivo de La sombra sobre Innsmouth de H. P. Lovecraft

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Segura Navas, C. Análisis contrastivo de La sombra sobre Innsmouth de H. P. Lovecraft. 2019. handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10230/42993

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Abstract

No matter where we look, it’s obvious the horror of the 19th and 20th century has influenced in in a good part of the culture. Literature, films, video games, board games and comics—terror has taken shape in every way from the ideas of authors such as Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Machen, and Howard Phillips Lovecraft. This last author is the focus of this work, the creator of a pagan mythology whose creatures appear interrelated in his stories. These stories are written with the characteristic suspense where the words often are not enough to narrate the events. In this work, The Shadow over Innsmouth (La sombra sobre Innmouth) is used to demonstrate how the characteristics of Lovecraft’s cosmicism appear along with three Spanish translations of different years. José María Roca, Juan Antonio Molina and Benjamin Briggent diverge when it comes to solving some translation problems, which can be seen in the analysis of the extracts in this work. Broadly, this work is interested in finding the best translated version among the translations we chose, having in mind Lovecraft's intention in his original work, The Shadow over Innsmouth.