%0 Journal Article %1 Maher2010 %A Maher, Brigid %D 2010 %J New Voices in Translation Studies %K Dialectos Humor LA Traducci{\'{o}}n Violencia literaria %T Attitude and Intervention: A Clockwork Orange and Arancia meccanica %U http://www.iatis.org/images/stories/publications/new-voices/Issue6-2010/article-maher-2010.pdf %V 6 %X This paper examines the Italian translation of Anthony Burgess’ A Clockwork Orange, focusing in particular on the language of narration, ‘Nadsat’. This invented argot, based on English but including a good deal of Russian vocabulary, contributes to the novel’s grotesque humour and to the narrator’s manipulation of the readers. In Floriana Bossi’s Italian translation, the Russian influence on Nadsat is almost completely missing; she draws instead on Italian and dialectal vocabulary. This results in a considerable change to what in the source text is a very foreign-sounding argot. I investigate the effect that Bossi’s approach has on the humour of the narration and on the audience’s potential involvement with the main character. Notions of violent language and the violence of translation are discussed, as is the extent to which Bossi’s approach is shaped by linguistic incompatibility, target-culture poetics, and ideologies about the role of the translator.

@article{Maher2010, abstract = {This paper examines the Italian translation of Anthony Burgess’ A Clockwork Orange, focusing in particular on the language of narration, ‘Nadsat’. This invented argot, based on English but including a good deal of Russian vocabulary, contributes to the novel’s grotesque humour and to the narrator’s manipulation of the readers. In Floriana Bossi’s Italian translation, the Russian influence on Nadsat is almost completely missing; she draws instead on Italian and dialectal vocabulary. This results in a considerable change to what in the source text is a very foreign-sounding argot. I investigate the effect that Bossi’s approach has on the humour of the narration and on the audience’s potential involvement with the main character. Notions of violent language and the violence of translation are discussed, as is the extent to which Bossi’s approach is shaped by linguistic incompatibility, target-culture poetics, and ideologies about the role of the translator.}, added-at = {2015-12-01T11:35:13.000+0100}, author = {Maher, Brigid}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/28719c59e23ea1d371a9106c2d9aa7e3b/sofiagruiz92}, interhash = {682688e61f1164a8ffc72d44d162b139}, intrahash = {8719c59e23ea1d371a9106c2d9aa7e3b}, journal = {New Voices in Translation Studies}, keywords = {Dialectos Humor LA Traducci{\'{o}}n Violencia literaria}, timestamp = {2015-12-01T11:35:13.000+0100}, title = {{Attitude and Intervention: A Clockwork Orange and Arancia meccanica}}, url = {http://www.iatis.org/images/stories/publications/new-voices/Issue6-2010/article-maher-2010.pdf}, volume = 6, year = 2010 }