La traducción en la obra de Carmen Martín Gaite

Abstract

One of the creative facets of the writer Carmen Martín Gaite is her work as a translator. She translated from Italian, Portuguese, French and English, although she started doing it from Romanian during her university education. She combined her translations with her reflections on the art of translating, which are part of her literary theory, exposed in a fragmentary manner in her essays, literary criticism, journalistic articles, lectures and notebooks. And she combined her work as a translator and her literary theory with her fictional practice, her literary critiques, her essays, her historical investigations, etc. All these creative facets influence each other, as happens with her literary theory. The author reflected on the concept of translation, as recreation or interpretation of the text, although always respecting the original work; the work of the translator and the necessary requirements to perform it; the art of translation and translation in today’s society.