Problemas de distância temporal e cultural em torno de uma tradução anotada de Esaú e Jacó para o espanhol

Abstract

Translating texts that are temporal and culturally distant presents problems specific to this condition. In this article, by means of an analysis of problems taken from the preparation of an annotated translation of Esaú e Jacó, and from the comments regarding two translations of the same work published in Spanish, one in 1905 and the other in 2008, I discuss specificities of the temporal axis and specificities of the cultural axis, which may or may not overlap, and contrast possible reading experiences of the source text and of the translations over time. The notes are discussed as a possible tool, as the translator attempts to modulate these distances by means of a qualitative approach. The horizon does not include reconstructing the experience of historical subjects, but the practice of inferring these potentialities of the text, by the translator, to inform the decision-making process. Despite the subjectivity inherent to the process, it is possible to produce these analyses based on ethical criteria which will allow the translator to trust the potential of the translation.