title: The importance of translating Karen Blixen’s novel The African Farm from Danish
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metadata.value: Krasnova, Elena
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metadata.value: 2024-02-29T09:55:06Z
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metadata.value: 2023-09
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metadata.value: Krasnova E. The importance of translating Karen Blixen’s novel The African Farm from Danish. Scandinavian Philology, 2023, vol. 21, issue 2, pp. 282– 296. https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu21.2023.206
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu21.2023.206
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/44975
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metadata.value: The importance of a new translation of Karen Blixen’s The African Farm is based
  on two factors: the book has never been translated from Danish (although the Danish
  version differs from the English version), and existing translations of the English
  version contain a number of inaccuracies. Karen Blixen’s book The African Farm was
  published in English in the UK in 1937 under the title Out of Africa. In the same year,
  Karen Blixen published the Danish text of the book under the title Den afrikanske farm.
  This book is not the only example of Karen Blixen’s own translations from English into
  Danish, as she also translated some of her short stories after their first publication in
  English. It is still a controversial issue whether her translations may be considered “copies”
  of the original works or they should be regarded as recreations in Danish. This article
  presents a comparative analysis of the English and the Danish texts of The African
  Farm which confirms that we are talking about two different versions of the work, since
  while creating the Danish text, Karen Blixen used several transformations: transpositions,
  substitutions, additions and omissions. The notion of “transformation” in this article
  implies a very wide range of modifications. The author makes significant changes
  to the original text. The result is a new text with quite a number of differences from
  English; the text that awaits translation from Danish. Out of Africa has been translated
  from English into Russian twice. The translations by experienced translators make a
  significant contribution to the history of literary contacts between Denmark and Russia;
  however, they contain a number of errors due to misunderstanding of Danish and
  African realities, as well as disregard for the specific situation. Translation of the Danish
  version of The African Farm is necessary not only because the Danish version has never
  been translated into Russian, but also because it would allow for the explication of some
  themes important for Karen Blixen that were “lost” in the translations from English.
  The present study does not presuppose consideration of literary aspects. It involves only differences between the Danish and the English versions of the novel, as well as the
  analysis of existing translations from English.
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metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Scandinavian Philology;Volume 21; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Karen Blixen
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Out of Afrika
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: African Farm
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metadata.value: Danish literature
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: author’s translation
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Danish
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: English
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The importance of translating Karen Blixen’s novel The African Farm from Danish
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metadata.value: Article
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