title: Is it worth multiplying translation multiplicity? From the experience of working on a new translation of Multatuli’s Max Havelaar
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metadata.value: Vekshina, Ekaterina
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metadata.value: Michajlova, Irina
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metadata.value: 2023-01-31T11:58:04Z
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metadata.value: 2023-01-31T11:58:04Z
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metadata.value: 2022-12
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metadata.value: Vekshina E., Michajlova I. Is it worth multiplying translation multiplicity? From the experience of working on a new translation of Multatuli’s Max Havelaar. Scandinavian Philology, 2022, vol. 20, issue 2, pp. 288–300.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu21.2022.204
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/38927
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metadata.value: The article is written within the framework of a relatively new trend in translation
  studies — the study of translation multiplicity (or, in other terminology, re-translation)
  of fiction. It uses Multatuli’s Max Havelaar (pseudonym of Eduard Douwes Dekker
  (1820–1887)) as its research material. It is an anti-colonial novel with autobiographical
  elements that opened Dutch readers’ eyes to the real state of affairs in the Dutch East
  Indies. These days, Max Havelaar is enjoying a worldwide surge in popularity: between
  2017 and 2022, its new translations and retranslations have been published in twelve
  languages, including English, French and Azerbaijani. The authors of this article, who
  were involved in creating a new Russian translation (the planned year of publication is
  2022), analyse the work of their predecessors — the previous seven Russian editions of
  the novel, which were published from 1916 to 1959. The analysis leads to the conclusion
  that the previous Russian versions of Max Havelaar do not meet the modern norms
  of translation (in the terminology of G. Toury), since all the 20th-century translations
  of the novel were made not from the Dutch original, but from a German translation,
  which had been made from the abridged edition of 1871, and not from the full author’s
  version of 1875–1881. These translations are full of literalisms that do not take into
  account the context; they contain errors in understanding the author’s text and are unnecessarily
  difficult to understand. This is why there is a need for a new, modern Russian
  version, which will allow Russian readers to appreciate Multatuli’s famous book at
  its true value. The differences in translation strategies in the 20th and 21st centuries are
  listed and relevant examples are given.
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Scandinavian Philology;Volume 20; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: translation multiplicity
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metadata.value: translation plurality
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metadata.value: re-translation
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metadata.value: Multatuli
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metadata.value: E. D. Dekker
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Max Havelaar
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metadata.value: speaking (meaningful) names
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metadata.value: Is it worth multiplying translation multiplicity? From the experience of working on a new translation of Multatuli’s Max Havelaar
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