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The Journal de traduction written by Marie‑Hélène Dumas during the translation of The Republic of Imagination by Azar Nafisi falls within an intermediate paratextual position between brouillon and métadiscours, where it is no longer the critic‑reader who establishes the bermanian translation horizon, but it is instead the author who spells out a project supported by a dual perception of authorship. As such, it is worth observing it in light of the recent interest of Translation Studies in the field of genetics of translation.

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Simona Munari

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Università Degli Studi Di Roma “Tor Vergata”, Italy

Giacomo Leopardi in lituano: L’ Infinito nelle traduzioni di Nyka Niliūnas e Lanis Breilis

Novella di Nunzio

Kwartalnik Neofilologiczny | 2021 | No 2 | 229-245 | DOI: 10.24425/kn.2021.138032

Keywords re‑translation untranslatability deixis Leopardi Infinito Nyka‑Niliūnas Breilis

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This article proposes a comparative analysis of two translations from Italian into Lithuanian of the idyll The Infinite by Giacomo Leopardi. The first translation, published in 1968, was made by the poet and translator Nyka‑Niliūnas. The second one, published in 2017, was made by then translator Lainis Breilis. The introduction demonstrates the interest of Lithuanian intellectuals living in the diaspora toward contemporary Italian poetry starting from the sixties in the context of the Soviet occupation. The study proceeds with a close reading of the two target‑texts, aimed at understanding how the two relate with the source‑text and also between each other. Among the several aspects analyzed, there is the deficiency in both translations of the deictic system relied upon by Leopardi’s idyll. More specifically, the attention will be focused on the semantic implications of this deficiency.

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Novella di Nunzio

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Vilniaus Universitetas, Lithuania

La Repubblica Popolare di Polonia in traduzione russa e inglese. Il caso di Lubiewo di Michał Witkowski

Lidia Mafrica

Kwartalnik Neofilologiczny | 2021 | No 2 | 212-228 | DOI: 10.24425/kn.2021.138031

Keywords Michał Witkowski Lubiewo translation studies cultural elements Polish People’s Republic

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Lubiewo (2005) by Michał Witkowski presents a particularly high number of cultural elements related to the last decades of the Polish People’s Republic (1952–1989), which far from serving exclusively as a historical background, turn the latter into one of the novel’s main characters. The present paper aims at investigating and comparing the way these elements, whose translation is known to be problematic, have been transferred into the Russian ( Любиево 2007) and English ( Lovetown 2010) translations.

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Lidia Mafrica

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Università Degli Studi Di Genova, Italy

“La letteratura per l’infanzia è cosa seria”: di come a Berlino Ciondolino si trasforma in Codino

Bianca Sulpasso

Kwartalnik Neofilologiczny | 2021 | No 2 | 265-281 | DOI: 10.24425/kn.2021.138034

Keywords children’s literature translation studies Nina Petrovskaya Luigi Bertelli Russians in Berlin

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Children’s literature was the focus of much attention in post‑revolutionary Russia: new magazines, publishing houses, bulletins were founded which sparked debate both around the role of detskaya literatura and the reform of the education system. Also amongst Russian émigrés there was a felt need to provide “new books for younger readers” and intense discussions took place. Translated books played an important role within this “new canon” of children’s literature. This article focuses on the work of the writer Nina Petrovskaya, as a cultural mediator and translator of Italian children’s literature into Russian, investigating, in particular, her version of Luigi Bertelli’s Ciondolino.

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Bianca Sulpasso

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Università Degli Studi Di Roma “Tor Vergata”, Italy

Tradurre Dante in polacco. Alcune riflessioni sulla resa dell’allotropia dantesca nelle traduzioni polacche del XIX secolo

Andrea F. De Carlo

Kwartalnik Neofilologiczny | 2021 | No 2 | 246-264 | DOI: 10.24425/kn.2021.138033

Keywords Julian Korsak Antoni Stanisławski Józef Ignacy Kraszewski Edward Porębowicz Polish nineteenth‑century translations of The Divine Comedy

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The greatest difficulty in translating Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy into another language certainly consists in rendering as much as possible the richness of diatopic, diastratic and diaphasic registers and linguistic variants present in the poem. The language used by Dante expresses the various tones of the vernacular, also making use of various idioms, styles and literary genres that are also very different from each other. The different components brought to light both on a phonomorphological and lexical level often settle into linguistic allotropes, voices which, while going back to the same origin and retaining the same meaning, are formally differentiated. The abundance of allotropes is in fact a very important prerogative of the language of the Comedy. The article, focusing in particular on the phenomenon of allotropy in the original Italian, analyzes and compares the solutions provided by nineteenth‑century translators: in particular, Julian Korsak, Antoni Stanisławski, Edward Porębowicz, and the unpublished translation by Józef Ignacy Kraszewski.

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Andrea F. De Carlo

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Università Degli Studi Di Napoli “L’orientale”, Italy

Il ramonismo di Orio Vergani: riscritture ipertestuali e traduzioni

Chiara Sinatra

Kwartalnik Neofilologiczny | 2021 | No 2 | 200-211 | DOI: 10.24425/kn.2021.138030

Keywords Ramonismo short novel hypotext transtexuality translation

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In 1927 Orio Vergani wrote the introduction to the first authorized Italian translation of Ramón Gómez de la Serna’s Senos (1917) and in 1942 he republished Soste del capogiro, a book of short stories from 1921–1926. The author of this article demonstrates how some of them retrace the short fiction of Gómez de la Serna in style, themes and language. Some were expanded and published by Vergani in 1942 in the fascist magazine “Legioni e Falangi”, however, their anonymous translation for the Spanish twin edition departs from the ramonian model of the origins.

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Chiara Sinatra

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Università Degli Studi Di Roma “Tor Vergata”, Italy

“Un libro per bambini dai 10 ai... 100 anni”. Riflessioni sulla prima edizione polacca de Il romanzo di Cipollino di Gianni Rodari

Ewa Nicewicz

Kwartalnik Neofilologiczny | 2021 | No 2 | 282-299 | DOI: 10.24425/kn.2021.138035

Keywords Rodari translation children’s literature Cipollino Zofia Ernst

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In communist Poland in the 1950s, “comrade” Gianni Rodari was one of the most frequently translated authors: his works were published in the press and in book form. The aim of this paper is to investigate the first Polish edition of Tile of Cipollino. The novel was translated into Polish by Zofia Ernst in 1954, based on its first Italian edition (1951), significantly different from the next version – in 1957 the novel was modified by the author himself and is now known as Adventures of Cipollino. The paper focuses on the translation challenges and strategies employed by the translator and on issues related to presumed censorship.

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Ewa Nicewicz

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Uniwersytet Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego w Warszawie, Polska

Performance evaluation of HEC-HMS model for continuous runoff simulation of Gilgel Gibe watershed, Southwest Ethiopia

Sewmehon Sisay Fanta Tolera Abdissa Feyissa

Journal of Water and Land Development | 2021 | No 50 | 85-97 | DOI: 10.24425/jwld.2021.138185

Keywords calibration Gilgel Gibe HEC-HMS runoff simulation sensitivity analysis validation

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Hydrological models are widely used for runoff simulation throughout the world. The objective of this study is to check the performance of the HEC-HMS model for continuous runoff simulation of Gilgel Gibe watershed. It includes sensitivity analysis, calibration, and validation. The model calibration was conducted with data from the year 1991 to 2002 and validated for the year 2003 to 2013 period using daily observed stream flow near the outlet of the watershed. To check the consistency of the model, both the calibration and validation periods were divided into two phases. The sensitivity analysis of parameters showed that curve number (CN) and wave travel time (K) were the most sensitive, whereas channel storage coefficient (x) and lag time (tlag) were moderately sensitive. The model performance measured using Nash–Sutcliff Efficiency (NSE), Percentage of Bias (PBIAS), correlation coefficient (R2), root mean square error (RMSE), and Percentage Error in Peak (PEP). The respective values were 0.795, 8.225%, 0.916, 27.105 m3 s–1 and 7.789% during calibration, and 0.795, 23.015%, 0.916, 29.548 m3 s–1 and –19.698% during validation. The result indicates that the HEC-HMS model well estimated the daily runoff and peak discharge of Gilgel Gibe watershed. Hence, the model is recommended for continuous runoff simulation of Gilgel Gibe watershed. The study will be helpful for efficient water resources and watershed management for Gilgel Gibe watershed. It can also be used as a reference or an input for any future hydrological investigations in the nearby un-gauged or poorly gauged watershed.

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