Translation and Time

6 Dezembro 2017, 14:00 • David Alan Prescott

Analysis of a text from "Um Poeta Lírico" by Eça de Queiroz involving discussion on such issues as the term "almoço", used by Queiroz to mean "breakfast". Should we try to maintain the flavour of the past in our translations or should we take into account that the people he was writing for would have found the text perfectly current? Analysis of how we could try to maintain a difference between the use of the second person vocative and the third person in Portuguese by means of register differences in English.