Translating Great Russian Literature by Cathy McAteer

Author:Cathy McAteer [McAteer, Cathy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780367503482
Google: 2qPYzQEACAAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-01-04T03:53:33+00:00

A personal manifesto

Although Magarshack's private collection does not contain a copy of Savory's The Art of Translation (1968), Savory's memorable list of conflicting instructions for would-be translators is mirrored in Magarshack's own four-page checklist for translation, a taxonomy entitled ‘General’ (see Appendix 2 for the full transcript). Magarshack's checklist also contains contradictions and incompatibilities, but there is no way of discerning whether these are intentional. The list consists of unadorned maxims, which leave the reader occasionally having to infer his intended meaning. What is clear from these statements, though, is that he and his practice reflect a complicated amalgam of Western and Soviet norms influencing his various approaches to translation. Magarshack's taxonomy is an attempt to articulate the best of these Western and Soviet strategies and to evaluate the UK translation industry from a position of twenty years' experience; in doing so, it also embodies Magarshack's translatorial hexis. Magarshack's written allegiance to certain professional values (Charlston, 2013, pp. 56–57) provides insight into personal complexities. In a bid to classify Magarshack's rather haphazard manifesto, I have condensed the most common and striking statements to the following three categories, all of which ‘reveal something about the complex, decision-making process' (ibid., p. 57) involved in Magarshack's translation practice. The three categories are: Gatekeeping; Strategy and style; The “good” translator. I shall now address each category in turn.

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