Article,
Problems in the Translation of Paul Austers The New York Trilogy
Babel: Revue internationale de la traduction/International Journal of Translation, (2001)
Abstract
In this paper I examine an original text, The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster, and its translation into Spanish. The source text chosen displays a wealth of instances of symbolic names, rhymes, wordplay, idioms, cultural references, colloquialisms and other stylistic features which are hard to transfer to Spanish without a significant loss of information. I attempt to identify those phenomena and discuss how the translator confronted them. I am particularly concerned with the lexical level.
