Vladimir Nabokov

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Sighting: Reference to Nabokov in a Brazilian literary suplement.
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Sighting: Reference to Nabokov in Suplemento [Edição Especial]: Belo
Horizonte, Maio/2015 Secretaria de Estado de Cultura.

Organização por João Pombo Barile. “A arte da tradução.”

p 24-25 Interview with Jorio Dauster*

JD: “ With Nabokov it was literary love at first sight... through words and
images he leads the reader to inquire himself , for example, about the color
of the shadow of an apple. My first challenge was the translation of “Pale
Fire”… Since I’m probably the Brazilian translator who worked with the
greatest amount of novels by Nabokov it is not surprising that, at times, I
felt the presence of the master looking over my shoulder to help me find the
“correct word,” actually the only word that he, like a goldsmith, fetched
from his linguistic universe in which Russian, French and English gloriously
comingled.”

[…] “Many Nabokov novels were followed by “annotations” written by
specialists, who investigate their hidden complex references, but I don’t
think that this detective task should be pursued by a translator: his task
is limited to transporting into his vernacular what the author decided to
show on the surface of his text.” <<...>> <<...>>

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*The interview was conducted and published in Portuguese-Brazil. I
translated Jorio’s words although my talent is insufficient in this field…


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