Augusto de Campos e a tradução da poesia de Emily Dickinson para o Português

Abstract

This paper analyses the translations of the poems “Death is a Dialogue between” and “I’m nobody! Who are you?” made by Augusto de Campos (1986) to his book O Anticrítico (1986). The analysis outlines some choices made by the translator regarding themes, meanings, rhyming patterns and lexica to keep Dickinson’s poetic style. It is also discussed how the translations establish a dialogue in terms of form and meaning with the source text. We start from the hypothesis that even though source and target texts present unique thematic purposes, they dialogue in a proficuous way with the target context. As theoretical background, we made reference to Carlos Daghlian (2008), Paulo Henriques Britto (2008), José Lira (2004), John Milton (1998), Lefevere (1992) and Paz (1981). As a result, It was concluded that Augusto de Campos presented a successful translation. He utilized linguistic features such as rhyming pattern, tone, meaning and lexica that dialogue with the source text. Therefore, he spread Dickinson’s poetry in the Brazilian contemporary literary system.