Monteiro Lobato e por quem os sinos dobram: a tradução de um dialeto literário

Abstract

This article analyzes the Portuguese translation of the literary dialect used in the novel For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Hemingway, that is, the resources used to depict its characters linguistically, so as to define the relationships among them and build up the illusion that they talk in Spanish. The conclusion is that such literary dialect is partly lost in the translation, which is unable to reproduce the dialogic nuances of the original.